oxidizing
氧化性,氧化,氧化作用,氧化性的
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ox·i·dized, ox·i·diz·ing.
- : to convert into an oxide; combine with oxygen.
- : to cover with a coating of oxide or rust.
- : to take away hydrogen, as by the action of oxygen; add oxygen or any nonmetal.
- : to remove electrons from, thereby increasing the valence.Compare reduce.
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ox·i·dized, ox·i·diz·ing.
- : to become oxidized.
- : to lose freshness after prolonged exposure to air and often to darken in color.
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When Perseverance ground away the surface of the rock, the team could tell that it had been oxidized, judging by the difference in color between the outer surface and the freshly exposed patch.
The atom whose electron or electrons have been stolen is said to be oxidized.
Once oxidized, the metals would have become less available to cells, so any cells that kept the metals in reduced form would have had an advantage.
The roots of its family tree, Carr suspects, could stretch back to Mars, where oxidizing conditions developed earlier.
Of course, this causes the nail clippers to oxidize and the water turns rusty, but it boils.
They oxidize organic materials, changing them to compounds that can be absorbed by plants and used in building protoplasm.
My purpose in slackening my heat as soon as the pig-iron was melted was to oxidize the phosphorus and sulphur ahead of the carbon.
The purpose now is to oxidize the carbon, too, without reducing the phosphorus and sulphur and causing them to return to the iron.
Just as alcohol vaporizes at a lower heat than water, so sulphur and phosphorus oxidize at a lower heat than carbon.
Chromic and nitric acids oxidize it to oxalic acid and carbon dioxide.