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In chemistry, metathesis is used to describe reactions that interchange atoms or groups of atoms between molecules. When at least one atom undergoes a change in oxidation state, the reaction is an oxidation-reduction reaction.
Notice that these definitions do not involve oxygen and hydrogen. Thus, redox reactions can occur with compounds that do not contain oxygen or hydrogen atoms. An everyday example of a redox reaction that we are all familiar with is the process of rusting.he formal name for a redox reaction is oxidation reduction reaction, and you can see that redox is just shorthand for the words reduction and oxidation. Thus, in a redox reaction, two things happen. You guessed it -- oxidation and reduction.