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Example sentences for "oxidizing"

Lexicographically close words:
oxidizable; oxidization; oxidize; oxidized; oxidizes; oxlip; oxlips; oxtail; oxyacetylene; oxychloride
  1. It may also be prepared by oxidizing the trimethylene glycol obtained by the action of hydrobromic acid on allylbromide.

  2. Accordingly, our meager knowledge of the chemistry of roasting indicates that while the external layers of the roasting beans are subjected to oxidizing conditions, reducing ones exist in the interior.

  3. At the same time, oxidizing and reducing reactions probably occur within the bean, as well as some polymerization and inter-reactions.

  4. In any event, however, the fact that oxidizing conditions predominate on the external portion of the bean is obvious.

  5. Nature, in the oxidizing influence of freely circulating atmospheric air, in the purifying effect of water, and in the powerful deodorizing properties of common earth, has provided the most potent ever-present and acting disinfecting media.

  6. This means prompt cutting off of metabolism, since metabolism is a matter of oxidizing fuel, and oxidation cannot go on unless the oxygen is provided.

  7. The heart is a muscle, and like any other muscle carries on its functional metabolism, which means that it is oxidizing fuel materials and producing waste products.

  8. The blueing of watch hands, buckles and the like may be done by dipping them into an oxidizing bath such as melted saltpeter.

  9. In the thermo-electric pyrometer of Le Chatelier, the wires used are platinum and a 10 per cent alloy of platinum and rhodium, enclosed in porcelain tubes to protect them from the oxidizing influence of the furnace gases.

  10. Corrosion--Corrosion, or a chemical action leading to the actual destruction of the boiler metal, is due to the solvent or oxidizing properties of the feed water.

  11. Of the above methods, the only ones which need be considered are those in which a mixture of aniline, glycerol and sulfuric acid is heated with an oxidizing agent.

  12. The only practical method for the preparation consists in the oxidation of p-nitrotoluene, although for this purpose various oxidizing agents are used.

  13. It can only be said that these impurities, as far as we are aware, increase the fusibility of iron, and that in an oxidizing flame oxidation becomes more excessive as the point of fusion approaches.

  14. That in a non-oxidizing atmosphere heterogeneous irons, however impure, may be soundly welded at indefinitely high temperatures.

  15. The wrought-iron box so settles together as the heat increases that it nearly excludes the oxidizing atmosphere of the furnace, and no film of oxide of iron is interposed between the surfaces.

  16. While high temperature is thus the first cause of that mobility which promotes welding, it is also the cause, in an oxidizing atmosphere, of that 'burning' which injures both the weld and the iron.

  17. That any wrought iron, of whatever ordinary composition, may be welded to itself in an oxidizing atmosphere at a certain temperature, which may differ very largely from that one which is vaguely known as 'a welding heat.

  18. Even in a gas furnace a very hot flame is usually an oxidizing flame.

  19. Hence, welding in an oxidizing atmosphere must be done at a heat which gives a compromise between imperfect contact due to want of mobility on the one hand, and imperfect contact due to oxidation on the other hand.

  20. Because of the excess of acetylene always present there is no danger of oxidizing the metal being heated.

  21. Steel is usually welded at a bright red heat because of the danger of oxidizing or burning the metal if the temperature is carried above this point.

  22. On oxidizing the precipitate resulting from the interaction of solutions of prussiate of potash and copperas (iron sulphate), Prussian blue as used in the paint trade is prepared.

  23. Its oxidizing and solvent values are very high.

  24. The strongly oxidizing air of the seacoast is probably responsible for the early decay of this pigment.

  25. It has a high oxidizing value, causing the rapid drying of paints and varnishes to which it has been added.

  26. It is a heavy straw-colored oil, and should be of some use in the paint and varnish industry, where a high boiling point solvent with an oxidizing principle is desired.

  27. That country air contains an odorous oxidizing substance, with the power of bleaching blue litmus, without previously reddening it, of destroying bad smells, and of bluing iodized red litmus.

  28. The chemical energy it possesses (which exceeds that of ordinary oxygen as much as the latter exceeds atmospheric air as an oxidizing agent) affords the means of ascertaining its presence and quantity.

  29. Oxidizing processes within the body are slower and while much exercise is not beneficial and may be often harmful, riding in the air, sitting in the air, above all, sleeping where there is an abundance of fresh air is all-important.

  30. Sulphuric acid is certainly an oxidizing agent and in virtue thereof removes hydrogen; but not in a solution whose concentration with respect to sulphuric acid is approximately only 0.

  31. Therefore he advocated the use of hypophosphites to supply the lacking oxidizing constituent.

  32. Their results indicated no increase of oxidizing actions within the system.

  33. An organic acid, obtained by oxidizing many organic substances, and found in the red ant.

  34. To put the matter in a nutshell, oxidizing conditions are induced by a strong draft and open flues, reducing conditions are obtained by closing the air inlets and using a liberal amount of fuel.

  35. Bromine is used extensively in organic chemistry as a substituting and oxidizing agent and also for the preparation of addition compounds.

  36. The chief use of bromine in analytical chemistry is based upon the oxidizing action of bromine water.

  37. To these may be added planishing, frosting or matting, and oxidizing as methods employed to enrich the entire surface.

  38. These effects may be partially overcome by frosting, plating, or oxidizing the metal, thus forming stronger contrasts of value.

  39. The fusion results in the formation of a gold-antimony alloy, from which the antimony is removed by an oxidizing fusion with nitre.

  40. This process depends upon the solubility of gold in a dilute solution of potassium cyanide in the presence of air (or some other oxidizing agent), and the subsequent precipitation of the gold by metallic zinc or by electrolysis.

  41. H2O, forms colourless needles; it is obtained in the direct action of sodium thiosulphate on gold in the presence of an oxidizing agent, or by the addition of a dilute solution of auric chloride to a sodium thiosulphate solution.

  42. In their general behaviour towards oxidizing agents the primary glycols behave very similarly to the ordinary primary alcohols (q.

  43. I haven't thought of it as an oxidizing process so much as an enzymic injury, where enzymes are freed from an organic solution.

  44. The author considers that the mere presence of oxygen in contact with the organic matter has but little oxidizing action unless lowly organisms, as bacteria, etc.

  45. It is, at any rate, established that carbon can crystallize as diamond from solution in iron, and other metals; and it seems that high temperature and pressure and the absence of oxidizing agents are necessary conditions.

  46. NO2, substances which he had previously prepared by similarly oxidizing the diazonium salts, by dehydrating the nitrates of primary amines with acetic anhydride, and by the action of nitric anhydride on the primary amines.

  47. When manganese dioxide is fused with an alkali and an oxidizing agent a green compound is formed.

  48. The chief use of potassium chlorate is as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of matches, fireworks, and explosives; it is also used in the preparation of oxygen and in medicine.

  49. As a rule, however, changes of this kind are brought about by the use of an oxidizing agent, and are called oxidations.

  50. It is readily attacked by chlorine but not by oxidizing agents.

  51. Sulphuric acid contains a large percentage of oxygen and is, like nitric acid, a very good oxidizing agent.

  52. On evaporating the solution these substances crystallize out as potassium chrome alum, which substance is produced as a by-product in the industries using potassium dichromate for oxidizing purposes.

  53. They decompose very easily and are good oxidizing agents.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oxidizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.