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Redux vs Redox - What's the difference?

redux | redox |

As an adjective redux

is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

As a noun redox is

a reversible process in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction.

redux

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
  • Company policy redux .
    Dirty tricks redux .
  • * 2004 , Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process , page 265:
  • 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.

    Usage notes

    is always used attributively and after the noun rather than before it.

    See also

    * redo * rediscuss

    References

    Anagrams

    * ----

    redox

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia redox) (-)
  • (chemistry) a reversible process in which one reaction is an oxidation and the reverse is a reduction
  • * {{quote-book, title=The conscientious marine aquarist,
  • books.google.com/books?isbn=1890087025, author=Robert M. Fenner, year=2001, passage=Can you have too much redox ? Definitely.}}
  • * {{quote-book, title=Chemistry: The Study of Matter and Its Changes,
  • books.google.com/books?isbn=0470576421, author=James E. Brady, Fred Senese, year=2009, passage=This will tell us whether redox is occurring, and if so, what is oxidized and reduced.}}

    Derived terms

    * auto-redox

    See also

    * reducing agent * oxidizing agent

    Anagrams

    * *