nitridationn.
/nʌɪtrᵻˈdeɪʃn/, /nʌɪtrʌɪˈdeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌnaɪtrəˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/ Chemistry.
A reaction analogous to oxidation but involving nitrogen or ammonia rather than oxygen or water; (Metallurgy) the process or an instance of nitriding an alloy.
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1911 A. W. Browne & T. W. B. Walsh in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 33 1728 One..purpose of this research has..been to study the phenomena of ammono-oxidation, or nitridation.
1929 Chem. Abstr. 23 3888 (heading) Study of surface-hardening of steel by nitridation.
1931 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 53 1478 Browne..applied the term ‘nitridation’ to all those reactions which for the ammonia system of compounds are essentially similar to oxidation reactions for the familiar water compounds.
1974 Jrnl. Materials Sci. 9 1362/2 Nitridations under identical conditions in tubes of two types of commercial sintered alumina resulted in the formation of greatly increased proportions of the beta phase.
1989 SIAM Jrnl. Appl. Math. 49 1083 Silicon nitridation... During nitridation dopant behavior is the reverse of that during oxidation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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