Definition of Reoxidize

1. Verb. (chemistry) To oxidize again, or to become oxidized again, after a period of reduction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reoxidize

1. oxidize [v -DIZED, -DIZING, -DIZES] - See also: oxidize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reoxidize

reorthogonalization
reos
reostat
reotrope
reotropes
reoutfit
reoutfits
reoutfitted
reoutfitting
reovirus
reovirus-like agent
reovirus 3
reoviruses
reoxidation
reoxidations
reoxidize (current term)
reoxidized
reoxidizes
reoxidizing
reoxygenate
reoxygenated
reoxygenates
reoxygenating
reoxygenation
reoxygenations
rep-silver
rep protein
repace
repaced
repaces

Literary usage of Reoxidize

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

1. A Text-book of chemistry: For Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Edward Curtis Hill (1911)
"They yield 0 to other substances and at once reoxidize themselves. ... Peroxidases give up 0, and reoxidize. They contain Mn, Fé, Al or Cu. ..."

2. Outlines of Physiological Chemistry by Silas Palmer Beebe, Bertram Henry Buxton (1904)
"It is supposed that they yield oxygen to the substances to be oxidized and then instantaneously reoxidize themselves. In this they differ from oxidizing ..."

3. A Text-book of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology by James William Holland (1917)
"The third, catalases, cannot reoxidize themselves from the air. Oxygenases turn tincture guaiac blue by direct transference of the molecular oxygen of the ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... dissolve the sulphide and convert to sulphate; reduce the molybdenum by zinc and reoxidize by a standard solution of permanganate. ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"... is added to reoxidize any reduced titanium and chromium.2 Or the reduction may be effected with H2S or SC>2 which have no action on ..."

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