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n. The combination of a substance with oxygen.

n. A reaction in which the atoms in an element lose electrons and the valence of the element is correspondingly increased.

n. The combination of a substance with oxygen.

n. A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the valence of the element increases.

n. The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.

n. The act or process of oxidizing, or causing a substance to combine with oxygen.

n. The act or process of taking up or combining with oxygen. Also oxidization, oxygenation.

n. the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction

"Of all the electron-grabbing elements, the most important is oxygen, so much so that chemists use the term oxidation to name the general chemical activity of grabbing electrons from other atoms, even if a chlorine atom is doing the grabbing."

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