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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 dissolved oxide, or of removing dissolved oxygen, with the aid of a reducing agent.

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