redox

What does redox mean?

redox means "a reversible chemical reaction in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction".

How many syllables are in redox?

redox has 2 syllables and divides as re-dox under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for redox?

Close synonyms include oxidation-reduction, oxidoreduction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is redox a common word?

redox is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for redox come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.