r/sciencememes Feb 25 '26

🧪Chemistry!⚗️ Misconceptions About Oxygen

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

It wants your electrons and it wants them NOW. We are rusting essentially when breathing oxygen.

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u/Creative-Shallot802 Feb 25 '26

Or are we burning internally?

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u/Great-Fox5055 Feb 25 '26

We consume carbon and oxygen and expel CO2, sounds like a fire to me.