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peroxide
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peroxide \Per*ox"ide\, n. (Chem.) An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, formed in English from per- "large amount" + oxide. Peroxide blonde is attested from 1918.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chemistry English) a divalent radical or anion containing two oxygen atoms linked by a covalent bond; any substance containing this group which yields hydrogen peroxide when treated with an acid 2 hydrogen peroxide, especially an aqueous solution vb. (context transitive English) to treat (something) with hydrogen peroxide, especially hair in order to bleach it
WordNet
n. a viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used as a disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels [syn: hydrogen peroxide]
an inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O-
v. bleach with peroxide; "She must peroxide her hair-it looks unnaturally blond"
Wikipedia
A peroxide is a compound containing an oxygen–oxygen single bond or the peroxide anion, . The O−O group is called the peroxide group or peroxo group. In contrast to oxide ions, the oxygen atoms in the peroxide ion have an oxidation state of −1.
The simplest stable peroxide is hydrogen peroxide. Superoxides, dioxygenyls, ozones and ozonides are considered separately. Peroxide compounds can be roughly classified into organic and inorganic. Whereas the inorganic peroxides have an ionic, salt-like character, the organic peroxides are dominated by the covalent bonds. The oxygen–oxygen chemical bond of peroxide is unstable and easily split into reactive radicals via homolytic cleavage. For this reason, peroxides are found in nature only in small quantities, in water, atmosphere, plants, and animals. Peroxide ion formation has recently been highlighted as one of the main mechanisms by which oxides accommodate excess oxygen in ionic crystals and may have a large impact on a range of industrial applications including solid oxide fuel cells.
Peroxides have a bleaching effect on organic substances and therefore are added to some detergents and hair colorants. Other large-scale applications include medicine and chemical industry, where peroxides are used in various synthesis reactions or occur as intermediate products. With an annual production of over 2 million tonnes, hydrogen peroxide is the most economically important peroxide. Many peroxides are unstable and hazardous substances; they cannot be stored and therefore are synthesized in situ and used immediately.
Peroxide was a punk zine published and edited during the late 1970s by Andrew Thomas, Quentin Cook (AKA Norman Cook) and Ian McKay (AKA Eóin MacAoidh). Inspired by punk zines such as Chainsaw, Peroxide lasted only two issues, with McKay being ousted by Cook after the first issue. Importantly however, the publication is noteworthy as it served to provide Cook with his first significant point of connection with the professional music business (his contact with Adam Ant being a notable example), and for both McKay and Thomas, their first experiences of publishing. Whilst Cook remained in the music business, McKay became a writer on the visual arts and culture, while Thomas moved into the business sector; he is currently the publisher of Communicate magazine and owner of Cravenhill Publishing.
Copies of Peroxide have latterly proved highly collectable owing largely to the connection with Norman Cook.
Peroxide is the debut album by Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt. The album features new material and old songs from her past EPs. It was released on 17 February 2014. After the release of the album, Nesbitt will embark on a 3-show tour including Manchester, London and her home town of Edinburgh. The album was produced by Nesbitt with Jake Gosling ( Paloma Faith, Ed Sheeran, One Direction) and Iain Archer ( Example, Snow Patrol, Jake Bugg).
Despite being at number one on Wednesday's mid-week chart, with a small lead, following the Brit Awards that night giving coverage to other bands and singers, including Arctic Monkeys and Bastille, it only reached number 11 on the album chart on Sunday 23 February. However, in Nesbitt's native Scotland, the album entered at number one on the Scottish Albums Chart, selling 45% more than its nearest competitor.
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.