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Deoxidize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To remove oxygen from (a compound); reduce.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. (chemistry) To remove oxygen from.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To deoxidate. Also spelled deoxidise, deoxydize.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

Word Usage

"This process unfortunately requires for its prompt success the use of a very large quantity of spiegel or of ferro-manganese, in order to sufficiently carburize and deoxidize the burnt iron, which is the final product of the blowing."

Verb Form

deoxidized deoxidizes deoxidizing

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Cross Reference

deoxidized bronze

Hyponym

pole benficiate