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- English Word Oxidator Definition An oxidizer.
- English Word Oxidator Definition A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.
- English Word Oxide Definition A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc.
- English Word Oxidizable Definition Capable of being oxidized.
- English Word Oxidize Definition To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.
- English Word Oxidize Definition To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.
- English Word Oxidize Definition To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.
- English Word Oxidize Definition 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.
- English Word Oxidized Definition of Oxidize
- English Word Oxidizement Definition Oxidation.
- English Word Oxidizer Definition An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.
- English Word Oxidizing Definition of Oxidize
- English Word Oxidulated Definition Existing in the state of a protoxide; -- said of an oxide.
- English Word Oxime Definition One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones.
- English Word Oxindol Definition A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H7NO) of the indol group, obtained by the reduction of dioxindol. It is a so-called lactam compound.
- English Word Oxiodic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of iodine and oxygen.
- English Word Oxlike Definition Characteristic of, or like, an ox.
- English Word Oxlip Definition The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).
- English Word Oxonate Definition A salt of oxonic acid.
- English Word Oxonian Definition Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.