And if you're doing some chemical process where you're halogenating something or making some exotic acid, then you could say, " yeah I'm combusting it in fluorine " . . . I suppose to distinguish " combustion " and " oxidation ", one would say that the primary method of combustion is via free radical formation and propagation and homolytic cleavage, whereas with ambient oxidation it doesn't always this way . talk ) 08 : 51, 21 September 2009 ( UTC)
