Average Oxidation State

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“Today everything is different. I can’t even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and catsup. I’m an average nobody, I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”
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“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)