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Oxidation(health)
Oxidation(medicine)
end oxidation(medicine)
oxidation-reduction(encyclopedia)
terminal oxidation(medicine)
oxidation pond(medicine)
oxidation number(medicine)
omega-oxidation(medicine)
biological oxidation(medicine)

oxidation (iou)



oxidation noun. L18.
[French (now oxydation), formed as OXIDATE: see -ATION.]
Chemistry. The action or process of oxidizing; the loss or removal of hydrogen from a compound, or of an electron from an atom or molecule; an increase in the proportion of electronegative constituents in a molecule or compound. Opp. REDUCTION 8a.
H. Davy A deep grey metallic powder, which became brown by oxidation. B. D. Porritt The oxidation of rubber..is technically known as 'perishing'.
Comb.: oxidation number the charge (expressed in units of the negative of the electron charge) which is assigned to an atom on the assumption that the bonding in the substance or radical containing it is completely ionic; the average formal charge so assigned to atoms of a particular element in a compound or radical; oxidation potential the electrode potential required to bring about a particular oxidation reaction at the electrode; oxidation-reduction = REDOX (freq. attrib.); oxidation state oxidation number; the state of having a particular oxidation number.
'oxidative adjective involving, pertaining to, or characterized by oxidation;
oxidative phosphorylation (Biochemistry), the synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate ions in mitochondria, utilizing energy produced in oxidative reactions: L19.
'oxidatively adverb by an oxidative process M20.