Re: blog: semantic dissonance in uniprot

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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