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oxidations

oxidations is the plural of oxidation.

Meaning of oxidation

Noun

oxidation (countable and uncountable, plural oxidations)

  1. The combination of a substance with oxygen.
    • On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of...2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the oxidation state of the element increases.

Phrases with oxidations

Questions about oxidations

What is oxidations the plural of?
Oxidations is the plural of oxidation.

Words near oxidations in the dictionary

  1. oxidation numbers
  2. oxidation state
  3. oxidation states
  4. oxidation-reduction
  5. oxidational
  6. oxidations
  7. oxidative
  8. oxidative phosphorylation
  9. oxidative phosphorylations
  10. oxidative stress
  11. oxidative stresses

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