oxidization

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

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

From oxidize + -ation.

You’ll get yourself killed with a ball in the back.” He who writes these lines has himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

oxidation, oxidisation

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