- From: Wacek Kusnierczyk <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk@idi.ntnu.no>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:47:19 +0200
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- CC: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Pat Hayes wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > >> What about this statement: >> >> "Two grams of hydrogen react with 16 grams of oxygen to 18 grams of >> water" > > If I were trying to do a professional job of 'ontologizing' this, it > would be a formal rendering of: > > Every reaction in which the participants are an amount1 comprising > hydrogen and an amount2 comprising oxygen, is an oxidation reaction this is a redox (reduction-oxidation) reaction, where the hydrogen is oxidized, but the oxygen is reduced ;) vQ
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