Bob wrote:
> >Roughly, peroxidation of a molecule is the incorporation of oxygen into
> >it whereas oxidation of a molecule is the removal of electrons from it.
>> I thought incorporating oxygen into a molecule was called "oxygenation"?
Yes, that's the general term for incorporating oxygen into a molecule. I
could equally have written "peroxidation is a form of oxygenation whereas
oxidation isn't".
Aubrey de Grey
