Word Meanings - PEROXIDIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide.

Related words: (words related to PEROXIDIZE)

• OXIDIZER
  An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.
• OXIDIZEMENT
  Oxidation.
• OXIDIZE
  To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent. Specifically: To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid. To remove hydrogen from , as
• DEGREE
  A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
• UTMOST
  1. Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge. Spenser. We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.
• PEROXIDE
  An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.
• INOXIDIZE
  To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.
• SUPEROXIDE
  See PEROXIDE
• HYPEROXIDE
  A compound having a relatively large percentage of oxygen; a peroxide.
• PROTOXIDIZE
  To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
• OUTMOST
  Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.
• DEOXIDIZE
  To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.
• DEOXIDIZER
  That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.
• PEROXIDIZE
  To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide.