"Although different kinds of chemical reactions are thus easily recognized, it has not been found very useful in general to attempt to classify reactions in a rigorous way. Nevertheless, there is one very important class of chemical reactions that deserves special study. These reactions are oxidation-reduction reactions, to which we now turn our attention."
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Linus Pauling (1957), College Chemistry (2nd ed.), Chapter 12. Oxidation-Reduction Reactions, p. 243
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