Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In chem., to convert into a protoxid by union with a proper amount of oxygen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Chem.) To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb chemistry, transitive To
combine (an elementary substance) withoxygen , in suchproportion as to form aprotoxide .
Etymologies
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protoxide + -ize
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