Also used as a disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels

Usage examples of peroxide.

The presence of peroxides of the heavy metals is prejudicial, since they tend to increase the quantity of silver retained in the slag.

She had a mustard complexion, wore her peroxided hair pinned back carelessly.

In the small kitchen area of Room 603 Yousef had boxes and jars full of sodium chlorate, nitrobenzene, sulfur, picric acid, acetate, sodium carbonate, perhydrol, hydrogen peroxide, and methenane, used in the manufacture of the high explosive RDX.

The finest colour is procured when the peroxide and protoxide of iron are mixed together.

They spent the night in an anonymous, small hospedaje outside Santiago de Compostela, where she immediately set to work dressing his shoulder wound, cleansing it with peroxide she had purchased at a farmacia, suturing it and applying an antibacterial ointment.

In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the theatrical profession all over her pretty, painted face.

You can add additional layers, covering acne with makeup, or treating it with sperm or with benzoyl peroxide.

Her friend, a small plump woman with peroxide blonde hair, totters across the road and hops in, pausing briefly to suck half a cigarette into her lungs before flicking the butt across the bonnet of my car.

She had isopropyl alcohol, peroxide, cotton balls, Band-Aids, Q-Tips, zinc ointment, Bacitracin, an Ace bandage, and a small bottle of Mercurochrome.

Hydrogen peroxide was produced photochemically as a result of exposing water and oxygen to light after the chemists had added a small amount of zinc oxide and a trace of organic matter.

The peroxide or superoxide was split by means of a catalyst in a decomposer and the resulting mixture of oxygen and water used as a propulsion jet in rockets or as the power source for a turbine: the Walter turbine.

I know about chemical supplies - mixtures of alkali metal peroxides and superoxides which react with water to give free oxygen and pick up carbon dioxide.

A short period of wet and warm brought the mats out of the vents and into the lake beds, where they interacted with the peroxide forms, perhaps incorporating them into the biofilm.

They had identified two substances in particular, oxyradicals and peroxide, as crucial to the aging process.

Doktor hit upon a technique to inhibit the development of the oxyradicals and the peroxide, thereby drastically reducing the rate of which he aged.