Definition of Deoxidation

1. n. The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Definition of Deoxidation

1. Noun. (minerology) The process of extracting the oxygen content of a dissolved oxide, or of removing dissolved oxygen, with the aid of a reducing agent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deoxidation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Deoxidation

1. The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deoxidation

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deoptimizing
deorbit
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deordination
deordinations
deorsumduction
deosil
deossification
deoxidate
deoxidated
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deoxidation (current term)
deoxidations
deoxidise
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deoxidising
deoxidization
deoxidize
deoxidized
deoxidizer
deoxidizers
deoxidizes
deoxidizing
deoxy
deoxy-

Literary usage of Deoxidation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"deoxidation of the Bath : The tracing of the chemical changes that take place in the process employed at this plant furnishes an interesting study. ..."

2. A Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory (1856)
"It would seem as if deoxidation were somehow favourable to the coalescence of smaller molecules to form larger and more complex ones, for in almost all of ..."

3. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering and Soils by George Perkins Merrill (1906)
"(2) deoxidation is a less common feature than oxidation. ... Through a similar process of deoxidation, ferrous sulphates may be converted into sulphides, ..."

4. Chemical Phenomena of Iron Smelting: An Experimental and Practical by Isaac Lowthian Bell (1872)
"In experiment 200 the former action was shown to have been produced at very little above 200°C. (392°F.), whereas in experiment 13 deoxidation by CO ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"Determining Gases in Steel and the deoxidation of Steel*1 BY J, R. CAIN, f BS, WASHINGTON, DC (Chicago Meeting, ..."

6. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1859)
"... such as oxidation, or deoxidation, we may explain in tin's way still other changes of color; for instance, from yellow, through red to black; which, ..."

7. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"In fact, deoxidation, decarbonation, and dehydration all occur; but oxidation, carbonation, ... deoxidation."

8. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1819)
"ACCOUNT OF . . . ?, SOME REMARKABLE FACTS OBSERVED IN TKK deoxidation OF METALS, .. , . Particularly Silver and Copper. . ,j In a Letter to Mr. Dalton. .: . ..."

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