Timeline for Is oxygen's paramagnetism biologically relevant?
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| Feb 25, 2019 at 12:58 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | @ManRow you are right. Unless there is an interaction with the applied magnetic field, the magnetic properties per se do not have any effect on the chemical reactions. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 8:30 | comment | added | ManRow | Interesting, so not exactly out of some kind of interaction with magnetic fields of any sort (which is what I usually think of regarding paramagnetism), but rather due to the quantum effects (such as this "spin barrier") that just also happen to give rise to "paramagnetism" as well. It seems the answer would then be "no", although the underlying causes of paramagnetism do give rise to other more "useful" properties (such as inhibitions of chemical reactivity) however. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 7:44 | comment | added | perfidious pidgeon | And by the way, there also exists a variety of singlet oxygen (1Σ -- second excited state) that is not paramagnetic, but is fairly unstable a room temperature. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 7:23 | history | answered | perfidious pidgeon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |