if oxygen is essential to life then why is oxidation or oxidative process dangerous?
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Cars needs oxygen to burn their fuel too. But once the fuel is burnt, there’s only undesirable waste products left.
Oxygen is very reactive, so we need it in our “machinery” for it/us to work. But if it reacts with something else that it’s not intended to, it might turn that something else into garbage instead, but without us using the productivity from the reaction.
So if you react it with the chassis of the car instead of the fuel, the chassis will oxidize and turn into undesirable, weaker, rusty metal.
The world isn’t divided into good or bad. Things cause actions and those actions can be labeled good/bad, but that will depend on what our goals are. We need water to live, but if you drink too much, you’ll overdose and die. If you breathe it in, you’ll die.
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