Lesson 17 · about 20 minutes
Oxidation
How wine turns to vinegar, a cut apple turns brown and cooking oil goes stale.
You will learn
- What oxidation means for a carbon compound
- How ethanol turns into ethanal and then ethanoic acid
- Why a cut apple turns brown, and how lemon juice slows it
- Why oils go rancid, and how antioxidants protect them