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oxidiser

oxidiser is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of oxidizer.

Meaning of oxidizer

Noun

oxidizer (plural oxidizers)

  1. An oxidizing agent, especially one used to oxidize the fuel of a rocket or a fuel cell.
    • Both chemicals are solid oxidizers in granular form and have a chlorine odor. […] Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also...2024 November, “Chemical Decomposition, Fire, and Toxic Gas Release at Bio-Lab, Inc.”, in U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation...

Forms of oxidiser

pluraloxidisers

Origin of oxidiser

From oxidise + -er.

Questions about oxidiser

What is oxidiser the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Oxidiser is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of oxidizer.

Words near oxidiser in the dictionary

  1. oxidisable
  2. oxidisation
  3. oxidise
  4. oxidised
  5. oxidisement
  6. oxidiser
  7. oxidisers
  8. oxidises
  9. oxidising
  10. oxidising agent
  11. oxidising agents

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