Oxygen Is Toxic!
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 27 (7), 462-466
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1297527
Abstract
The stepwise reduction of molecular oxygen involves several intermediates which are much more reactive than O2 itself. The propensity of O2 for univaThis publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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