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  • verb Present participle of oxidize.

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Examples

  • Any substance that rips electrons away from another molecule is known as an oxidizing agent or electrophile.

    Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010

  • A firing with excess amount of air intake (oxygen) is called oxidizing and a firing with too little air for complete combustion of the fuel is called reducing.

    2. Kilns 1987

  • For how the energetic cycles of that power the cell emerged, that alone has only entertained many interesting possibilities, hot core and cooler oceans, reducing ocean/sea floor/land and more oxidizing atmosphere, molecules generated by incubation in space and subsequent infall to earth, reacting with terrestrial molecules, photochemistry (from a uv-rich sun), concentration gradients of a wide variety of sorts, reactions of molecules produced by energetic processes involving meteor impact/burnup.

    Alice In Wonderland official trailer 2009

  • The secretive California-based energy startup has already amassed around $400 million in venture capital, and have created a device for green power-generation using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source.

    David Milroy: Looking to Market Forces, Not Government, to Make the World Greener David Milroy 2011

  • Frying destroys the antioxidants in oil, actually oxidizing the oil, which causes even worse problems for your body than trans-fats.

    Dr. Joseph Mercola: Coconut Oil: When Fat Is A Good Thing Dr. Joseph Mercola 2011

  • The process of oxidizing brings alive this material, which behaves like fire, dynamic, transmutable and unpredictable.

    Really Creative Fireplaces Designs by Anne Colombo 2009

  • The secretive California-based energy startup has already amassed around $400 million in venture capital, and have created a device for green power-generation using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source.

    David Milroy: Looking to Market Forces, Not Government, to Make the World Greener David Milroy 2011

  • The secretive California-based energy startup has already amassed around $400 million in venture capital, and have created a device for green power-generation using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source.

    David Milroy: Looking to Market Forces, Not Government, to Make the World Greener David Milroy 2011

  • Animals get energy by eating carbohydrates and oxidizing them in a series of enzyme catalyzed reactions that are coupled to the formation of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

    Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010

  • The secretive California-based energy startup has already amassed around $400 million in venture capital, and have created a device for green power-generation using solid oxide fuel cells, which provide juice by oxidizing a fuel source.

    David Milroy: Looking to Market Forces, Not Government, to Make the World Greener David Milroy 2011

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