Oxidation Process Quotes

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.

We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a novel result since the process of oxidation was believed to require the integrity of the cells.

Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.