单词 | oxidizing |
释义 | oxidizingn. Chemistry. Usually attributive. The action or process of oxidizing a substance; the process of becoming oxidized; oxidation.Sometimes not easily distinguishable from oxidizing adj. ΚΠ 1840 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 130 28 A contrary or oxidizing action now commences, marked by the maintenance of whiteness on the paper. 1917 Jrnl. Industr. & Engin. Chem. 9 838/2 The cost of nitric acid..must therefore depend on the cost of ammonia gas in the gas holders ready to be passed to the oxidizing apparatus. 1992 Public Wks. (Nexis) 15 Apr. d64 Both chlorination and ozonation are oxidizing procedures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oxidizingadj. Chemistry. Chiefly attributive. Designating a substance, environment, etc., that brings about oxidation.Sometimes not easily distinguishable from oxidizing n.Recorded earliest in oxidizing agent n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to oxidation > converted to an oxide oxidated1791 oxidating1800 oxidized1803 oxidizing1814 1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 541 It had acid properties and was capable of being converted by oxidizing agents into Prussic acid. 1842 E. A. Parnell Elements Chem. Anal. (1845) 371 Heated with rather a strong oxidizing flame. 1924 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Nov. 1112/1 An oxidizing atmosphere would tend to oxidize both the silicon and the iron simultaneously. 1953 A. G. E. Pearse Histochem. ix. 209 Lison..found a number of compounds (ketones,..free bromine, and oxidizing enzymes in the presence of oxygen) which would recolorize Schiff's reagent. 1991 Nucl. Energy June 183/1 In BWRs where the chemistry is oxidizing, the grown oxides contain less chromium. 2003 Life Sci. Weekly (Nexis) 28 Apr. 26 Soil on Mars is thought to be rich in oxidizing chemicals. Compounds oxidizing agent n. a substance that brings about oxidation and in the process is itself reduced. ΚΠ 1814*Oxidizing agent [see main sense]. 1850 C. G. B. Daubeny Introd. Atomic Theory (ed. 2) vii. 193 By the action of oxidizing agents on alcohol..we produce aldehyde. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) lii. 536 Manganese heptoxide is a powerful oxidizing agent; with water it gives a violet solution containing some permanganic acid. 1991 D. T. Sawyer Oxygen Chem. i. 17 Hydrogen peroxide, perborates, and peracids are used as bleaches and decolorizing agents, disinfectants, and general oxidizing agents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840adj.1814 |
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