Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxid. Also spelled
deoxydation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.
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- noun mineralogy The process of extracting the
oxygen content of a dissolvedoxide , or of removing dissolved oxygen, with the aid of a reducing agent.
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Examples
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The scarcity of the metal precludes their present introduction as pigments, but if the chromates of thallium were found to resist the action of light and air, and not to become green by deoxidation of the chromic acid, they might possibly prove fitted for the palette.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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In this chromate, as in many others, the affinity of the chromic acid to the base is small; the former is liable to separate from the latter, and, by deoxidation, to become converted into green oxide of chromium.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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If this be the case, the citrine cast of the brown oxide is easily explained, as well as the gradual addition to its green by the deoxidation of the chromic acid.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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The variation is required to meet the difficulty occasioned by the tension of the nitric acid and products of deoxidation.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
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The action of light in this, as well as in the other photographic processes with metallic salts described in this work, is one of deoxidation, as shown by Herschel.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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These retorts are proportioned so that they will hold ore enough to run the puddling furnace 24 hours, the time required for perfect deoxidation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various
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Pigments generally are more affected by oxidation and fading in a water vehicle, and by deoxidation and darkening in one of oil.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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To deoxidation of the coloring matter by substances, which have a great tendency to become oxidised or peroxised; _e. g._ hydrogen, in the case of decolorisation by sulphuretted hydrogen, nascent hydrogen, and the protoxides of iron and tin, &c.
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Steel, balls, stock for bolts, making composition of deoxidation for chisels and punches forging of give it a chance heat treatment of high speed making
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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He early learned to look to the balance for help in the definition of facts, and found its great value particularly when he began to study the phenomena we now know under the terms combustion or oxidation, and reduction or deoxidation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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