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Oxidation state diagram showing the energy landscape for intermediates in the oxidation of two water molecules to a molecule of O2. These data are for pH 7 but a qualitatively similar picture is obtained for pH 0 and 14, and using Krishtalik's corrected data. Widths of horizontal block arrows indicate the thermodynamic difficulty in accomplishing that stage of the reaction.
