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deoxidations

deoxidations is the plural of deoxidation.

Meaning of deoxidation

Noun

deoxidation (countable and uncountable, plural deoxidations)

  1. The process of extracting the oxygen content of a dissolved oxide, or of removing dissolved oxygen, with the aid of a reducing agent.
    • When [Henry Cavendish] commenced those researches, he found an opinion prevailing, that the production of fixed air, or carbonic acid, is the invariable result of what he called the phlogistication, and we should call the deoxidation, of atmospheric air.1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E., “General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries”, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, page 43

Questions about deoxidations

What is deoxidations the plural of?
Deoxidations is the plural of deoxidation.

Words near deoxidations in the dictionary

  1. deoxidate
  2. deoxidated
  3. deoxidates
  4. deoxidating
  5. deoxidation
  6. deoxidations
  7. deoxidative
  8. deoxidisation
  9. deoxidisations
  10. deoxidise
  11. deoxidised

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