If this white body (Indigo White) be exposed to the air, the oxygen of the air undoes what the hydrogen did, and oxidises that Indigo White to insoluble Indigo Blue.
It is professed for animal charcoal, which is widely used, that it absorbs oxygen, and so fully oxidises whatever passes through it.
Copper oxidises less easily than lead does; and, consequently, the alloy which is being cupelled becomes relatively richer in copper as the operation proceeds.
Iron rusts or oxidises very readily, and, consequently, is rarely found in the metallic state in nature; such native iron as is found being generally of meteoric origin or imbedded in basalt and other igneous rocks.
It oxidises most combustible substances with deflagration, and thereby converts sulphides into sulphates, arsenides into arsenates, and most metals into oxides.
A solution of this substance, even if very dilute, is of a red colour; on adding it to a putrid water, the permanganate oxidises and destroys the organic matter.
Hence ozone, although it has the same composition as oxygen, differs from it in stability, and by the fact that it oxidises a number of substances very energetically at the ordinary temperature.
Thus, for instance, chlorine in the presence of water oxidises sulphur and metallic sulphides.
It will be sufficient to point out for instance that it oxidises silver, mercury, charcoal, and iron with great energy at the ordinary temperature.
Hydrogen peroxide oxidises with particular energy substances containing hydrogen and capable of easily parting with it to oxidising substances.
The copper oxide then oxidisesthe hydrogen and hydrocarbons--it burns them, forming water and carbonic anhydride, which may be removed as above described.
This red alkali is evaporated and air is blown through it, which oxidises the impurities (for this purpose sometimes sodium nitrate is added, or bleaching powder, &c.
The charcoal condenses and oxidises the escaping sewer gas in its pores.
Nitric acid oxidises it, evolving at the same time nitric oxide; whilst sulphuric acid converts it into anhydrous sulphate.
It forms small angular masses, with a metallic lustre; is very brittle and infusible; resists the action of acids, but readily oxidises when heated in the air.
The most serviceable ink for our purpose is made of any pure "drying" oil (or oil that oxidises rapidly), mixed with lampblack and very little else.
The ink is minutely divided among the interstices of the paper, and a large surface being thereby exposed to the air, it oxidises at once, while a print from the finger upon glass will not dry for two or three days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oxidises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
