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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Oxidize \Ox"i*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Oxidized}; p. pr &
vb n. {Oxidizing}.] (Chem.)
To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen,
or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically:
a To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen
to as to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric
acid.
b To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of
oxygen; as to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.
c To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing
agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous
compound to an -ic compound; as to oxidize mercurous
chloride to mercuric chloride.
Note: In certain cases to oxidize is identical with to
acidify; for in nearly all cases, the more oxygen a
substance contains the more nearly does it approximate
to acid qualities; thus by oxidation many elements, as
sulphur, nitrogen, carbon, chromium, manganese, etc.,
pass into compounds which are acid anhydrides, and thus
practically in the acid state.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
oxidized
adj : combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with
oxygen: "the oxidized form of iodine" [syn: {oxidised}]
more about oxidized
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