Is beating oxidised just gaining oxygen, because somewhere I read that HCL(hydrocolric acid) was oxidised to Cl2( chlorine) so is the text just misprinted or is there actually a reason behind it?
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If you look at the Wikipedia entry of redox reactions, it discusses the origin of “oxidation.” Yes, initially it was used to described a reaction with oxygen forming an oxide, but later it was generalized to include chemically similar reactions even devoid of an oxygen reactant. In that sense, reduction is gaining an electron, and oxidation is losing one.
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