Definitions
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- noun Oxidation.
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- noun rare Oxidation.
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- noun archaic
oxidation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although the time required was much longer than when acid was used, amounting to three hours for the oxidizement of 7.55 grains of zinc, still I found that the hydrogen evolved at the platina plate was the equivalent of the metal oxidized at the surface of the zinc.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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The oxid of iron, thus obtained, was not in the high - est state of oxidizement, for, it was completely, although not pow - erfully, attractable by the magnet, by which the whole of it was actually transferred from a glass plate to a wine glass.
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The excess, instead of the usual loss, proceeds manifestly from the oxidizement of the iron, in a considerable, but un - known proportion.
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