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Definition of Oxidize

1. Verb. Enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide. "This metal oxidizes easily"

Definition of Oxidize

1. v. t. To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.

Definition of Oxidize

1. Verb. (chemistry transitive) To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide. ¹

2. Verb. (chemistry) To increase the valence (or the positive charge) of an element by removing electrons. ¹

3. Verb. To coat something with an oxide. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To become oxidized. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oxidize

1. to combine with oxygen [v -DIZED, -DIZING, -DIZES]

Medical Definition of Oxidize

1. 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. 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. 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. Origin: Oxidized; Oxidizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxidize

Literary usage of Oxidize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"... may be summarized as follows: Oxygen Required to oxidize Organic Sewage Matter. ... required to oxidize completely the organic matter in sewage varies ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"In the whole course of the experiments there was no evidence of the production of any galvanic action having the slightest tendency to oxidize or in any way ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"In the whole course of the experiments there was no evidence of the production of any galvanic action having the slightest tendency to oxidize or hi any way ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... decomposed by putrefactive bacteria and yielding Sib which the sulphur bacteria oxidize; the resulting sulphur is then again oxidized to SO3 and again ..."

5. New Aspects of Diabetes: Pathology and Treatment by Karl Harko von Noorden (1912)
"... alter their usual way of living and oxidize the fat brought to them by the blood stream at once, as in ordinary conditions of nutrition they oxidize ..."

6. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"The needle, however, rests upon two points which are liable to get bent or to oxidize. Respecting the employment of the galvanometer in ..."

7. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1905)
"... that required to oxidize organic matter 15.3 corresponding to 1.53 milligrams oxygen. Therefore, "required oxygen" is 1.53 X 5 = 7.65 parts per million. ..."

8. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1830)
"... exposing the clay, earth, or ether substance, so impregnated to the action of a heat, sufficient so far to oxidize the iron, as to render it insoluble, ..."

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