Crossword clues for oxidize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oxidize \Ox"i*dize\ ([o^]ks"[i^]*d[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Oxidized ([o^]ks"[i^]*d[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Oxidizing.] (Chem.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically:
To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.
To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.
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To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.
Note: In certain cases to oxidize is identical with to acidify; for, in nearly all cases, the more oxygen a substance contains the more nearly does it approximate to acid qualities; thus, by oxidation many elements, as sulphur, nitrogen, carbon, chromium, manganese, etc., pass into compounds which are acid anhydrides, and thus practically in the acid state.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1802 (implied in oxidizable), from oxide + -ize. Related: Oxidized; oxidizing; oxidization.
Wiktionary
Etymology 2 vb. (context chemistry transitive English) To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "oxidize".
Then he hooked his hat on a wood peg and combed his hair in an oxidized mirror, lit an unfiltered cigarette, and sat down at a table by himself while a mulatto woman brought him a shot of whiskey and a beer on the side and a length of white boudin in a saucer.
The quantity of iron peroxidised is determined by taking a known quantity of ferrous salt, oxidizing with a weighed sample of nitrate, and then determining the residual ferrous iron by titration with bichromate or permanganate of potassium solution.
An oxidized crust of thin metal plated the soil around the noint of impact.
It sends in the first aid crew to revegetate the area and cover the poor oxidizing and eroding, bare soil.
The vegetation which actually oxidized the saturated hydrocarbons of Mesklinite biological waste and gave off free hydrogen was represented by a variety of unicellular species corresponding as nearly as might be expected to terrestrial algae.
When black teas are processed, the leaves are oxidized for a number of hours, and it is during this time that most, but not all, of the unoxidized polyphenols are transformed through air exposure.
From a pyrolysis process we would expect to find traces of elemental iron and silicon, or perhaps slightly oxidized forms .
From a pyrolysis process we would expect to find traces of elemental iron and silicon, or perhaps slightly oxidized forms.
Bromine is used extensively in organic chemistry as a substituting and oxidizing agent and also for the preparation of addition compounds.
These films must now surely be oxidizing trendily in canisters lost deep within a Beverly Hills vault, calmly anticipating their perky reemergence into the world of the living as backdrop fodder in hip L.
It is chiefly used as an oxidizing agent in volumetric work, being sharp in its reactions and easily detected in minute quantities.
It is separated by dissolving the hydrates in hydrochloric acid, and oxidizing with chlorine water.
Silicon is readily converted into silica by the action of oxidizing agents.
Initial blackness can also be ensured by oxidizing 21 per cent of the ferrous-sulphate without adding the extra acid necessary to the formation of a ferric salt.
There was a smell of burning, like autumn ash: that was asteroid dust, she knew, leaked into their hab environment despite all their precautions, thin fine stuff that was slowly oxidizing, burning in the air.