Oxidize
verb
When something combines with oxygen.
Iron oxidizes into rust when it is exposed to oxygen over time.
Often appears as...
- iron oxidizes
- oxidize to form
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Technical
verb
In chemistry, when something loses electrons or increases its oxidation state.
In this chemical reaction, hydrogen molecules oxidize to increase the energy output.
Often appears as...
- oxidize in reaction
- molecules oxidize
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Academic
verb
When something combines with oxygen.
Iron oxidizes into rust when it is exposed to oxygen over time.
Often appears as...
- iron oxidizes
- oxidize to form
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In chemistry, when something loses electrons or increases its oxidation state.
In this chemical reaction, hydrogen molecules oxidize to increase the energy output.
Often appears as...
- oxidize in reaction
- molecules oxidize
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Non-living Things
Oxidize usually refers to non-living things like metals, not biological organisms.
The statue oxidizes over time due to rain.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Process
Oxidize often implies a natural, gradual process, not something quick or instant.
Silverware tends to oxidize and tarnish with age.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The term can imply damage or degradation, as with rust or corrosion.
The old car's body has started to oxidize.
Pro Tip 1/3Non-living Things
Oxidize usually refers to non-living things like metals, not biological organisms.
The statue oxidizes over time due to rain.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Process
Oxidize often implies a natural, gradual process, not something quick or instant.
Silverware tends to oxidize and tarnish with age.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The term can imply damage or degradation, as with rust or corrosion.
The old car's body has started to oxidize.
Pro Tip 1/3Non-living Things
Oxidize usually refers to non-living things like metals, not biological organisms.
The statue oxidizes over time due to rain.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Process
Oxidize often implies a natural, gradual process, not something quick or instant.
Silverware tends to oxidize and tarnish with age.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The term can imply damage or degradation, as with rust or corrosion.
The old car's body has started to oxidize.
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Why didn’t this 2,000...
they expose more surface area for these microbial enzymes to oxidize and mineralize. Even the excretions they leave behind are mined by microbes. This continues until the apple is reduced to nothing— a process that would take one to two months in a temperate forest. Environments that are hot and wet support more microbes
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Searching For Life in...
We can think of the earth as a battery. In the sub-surface, in those liquids and those gases, those chemicals are said to be reduced. There are a lot of electrons. On the very thin rind of the planet that we operate in, the atmosphere, the surface world, the ocean, that's said to be oxidized. So where these places meet,
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Penelope Boston: Life on...
They take iron and manganese minerals within the bedrock and they oxidize them. And every time they do that, they get a tiny little packet of energy. And that tiny little packet of energy is what they use, then, to run their life processes. Interestingly enough, they also do this
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How batteries work -...
making more electrons available for oxidation the next time you need them. But even rechargeable batteries don't last forever. Over time, the repetition of this process causes imperfections and irregularities in the metal's surface that prevent it from oxidizing properly.
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Here, Cutting Down...
should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been plowed through the peat lines are very bad at drying out the peat and breaking it up once the peat is exposed to the air it starts to always oxidize and deteriorate and every time a peat is
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
So the gases in the atmosphere were on a one-way trip to be oxidized and placed into minerals. So if you increase the amount of sunlight with mirrors, or whatever, you can sublimate, get more water vapor in the atmosphere, more rain. But what's going to happen?
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Taylor Wilson: My...
but these zirconium claddings on these fuel rods, what happens is, when they see high pressure water, steam, in an oxidizing environment, they'll actually produce hydrogen, and that hydrogen has this explosive capability to release fission products.
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Why Earth may someday...
and when water had enough energy, it broke up into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen being so light, it escaped into space, and the oxygen that was left oxidized or rusted the ground, making that familiar rusty red color that we see.
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Hidden Alaska PIPE National...
so they just took pulled out and turned the pumps off which was pumping the water out of the mine site and what happens is when you have water that mixes with a copper and it oxidizes it's one of its byproducts is arsenic and the
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What’s in the air you...
For example, when factories burn coal, they release high concentrations of sulfur oxides. These molecules oxidize to form sulfates, which condense with water vapor in the air to form a blanket of fine particles
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Why didn’t this 2,000...
they expose more surface area for these microbial enzymes to oxidize and mineralize. Even the excretions they leave behind are mined by microbes. This continues until the apple is reduced to nothing— a process that would take one to two months in a temperate forest. Environments that are hot and wet support more microbes
Video examples
Searching For Life in...
We can think of the earth as a battery. In the sub-surface, in those liquids and those gases, those chemicals are said to be reduced. There are a lot of electrons. On the very thin rind of the planet that we operate in, the atmosphere, the surface world, the ocean, that's said to be oxidized. So where these places meet,
Video examples
Penelope Boston: Life on...
They take iron and manganese minerals within the bedrock and they oxidize them. And every time they do that, they get a tiny little packet of energy. And that tiny little packet of energy is what they use, then, to run their life processes. Interestingly enough, they also do this
Video examples
How batteries work -...
making more electrons available for oxidation the next time you need them. But even rechargeable batteries don't last forever. Over time, the repetition of this process causes imperfections and irregularities in the metal's surface that prevent it from oxidizing properly.
Video examples
Here, Cutting Down...
should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been plowed through the peat lines are very bad at drying out the peat and breaking it up once the peat is exposed to the air it starts to always oxidize and deteriorate and every time a peat is
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
So the gases in the atmosphere were on a one-way trip to be oxidized and placed into minerals. So if you increase the amount of sunlight with mirrors, or whatever, you can sublimate, get more water vapor in the atmosphere, more rain. But what's going to happen?
Video examples
Taylor Wilson: My...
but these zirconium claddings on these fuel rods, what happens is, when they see high pressure water, steam, in an oxidizing environment, they'll actually produce hydrogen, and that hydrogen has this explosive capability to release fission products.
Video examples
Why Earth may someday...
and when water had enough energy, it broke up into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen being so light, it escaped into space, and the oxygen that was left oxidized or rusted the ground, making that familiar rusty red color that we see.
Video examples
Hidden Alaska PIPE National...
so they just took pulled out and turned the pumps off which was pumping the water out of the mine site and what happens is when you have water that mixes with a copper and it oxidizes it's one of its byproducts is arsenic and the
Video examples
What’s in the air you...
For example, when factories burn coal, they release high concentrations of sulfur oxides. These molecules oxidize to form sulfates, which condense with water vapor in the air to form a blanket of fine particles
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Andrew Weil
American Scientist
I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.
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Mel Gibson
Actor
We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.
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Andrew Weil
American Scientist
I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.
Quote examples
Mel Gibson
Actor
We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.
Example 1 of 2
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