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Compounds | Reactions | Production
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| Reactions of Oxygen |
| Oxygen does not react with acids or bases under normal conditions. |
 Reactions with water |
| Oxygen will not react with water. |
| Reactions with air |
| Oxygen gas does not react with itself or nitrogen under normal conditions. However the effect of ultraviolet light upon oxygen gas is to form the blue gas ozone, O3. |
| Reactions with halogens |
| Irradiation of a low pressure mixture of oxygen and fluorine gases will produce dioxygen difluoride. |
O2(g) + F2(g) F2O2(g) |
| Reduction Potentials | |
| Balanced half-reaction | E0 / V |
O2(g) + 4H+ + 4e- 2H2O
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+1.229 |
| O2(g) + 4H+ + 4e-2H2O
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+0.815 |
| O2(g) + 2H2O + 4e-4OH- |
+0.401 |
| O2(g) + H2O + 2e-HO2- + OH- |
+0.076 |
| O2(g) + 2H+ + 2e-H2O2 |
+0.682 |
| O3(g) + 2H+ + 2e-O2(g) + H2O
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+2.07 |
| O3(g) + 6H+ + 6e-3H2O
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+1.501 |
| O3(g) + H2O + 2e-O2(g) + 2OH- |
+1.24 |
| HO2- + H2O + 2e-3OH
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+0.88 |
| H2O2 + 2H+ + 2e-2H2O
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+1.776 |