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The natural process of oxidation causes the light-gray marks of a silverpoint drawing to turn, over time, a warm grayish-brown.
The paint binder may have gradually undergone internal changes caused by oxidation.
Antioxidants fight oxygen-free radicals that cause the chemical process of oxidation, which can injure tissue and lead to cancer.
In 1980, Sharpless showed how to create pure chiral compounds through an entirely different catalytic reaction, called oxidation.

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oxidation | American Dictionary

oxidation
noun[ U ]
us/ˌɑk·sɪˈdeɪ·ʃən/
chemistry
the process by which iron and steel rust
chemistry
Oxidation is also the chemical process by which an atom or group of atoms loses electrons.

Examples of oxidation

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A number of markers of tissue oxidation have been demonstrated to be elevated in muscles of old mice and humans.
To be formed, raised (ombrotrophic) mires require high annual precipitations (> 2500 mm) evenly distributed through the year to protect the peat from severe oxidation.
This implies that the primary mechanism of iron oxidation in this microbial mat is oxygen production by cyanobacteria.
Early on it was clear that metal centres in some dimers in low oxidation states tended to artificially drift apart.
This yielded a larger number of quantifiable compounds without the risk of including artefacts caused by oxidation in leaf homogenates.
Their presence, or sometimes dominance, in every sample of this study, suggests that post-depositional oxidation did not alter the assemblages.
Older soils are clearly distinguished from younger soils in having browner or reddish colours with an increased depth of oxidation.
It stabilises membranes by reacting with sulphydryl groups of membrane proteins forming stable mercaptides, thus preventing oxidation by inhibiting intramolecular disulphide formation.
Further, many states with different spins and different oxidation states are usually involved.
Photocatalytic oxidation of organic substrates requires an electron acceptor, light of the proper wavelength, and low concentrations of catalyst fouling agents or interfering radical scavengers.
Uranium is very susceptible to oxidation, which is bad for two reasons.
No oxidation or ultrasound treatments were applied since these techniques could have damaged the dinoflagellate cysts or caused selective loss of species.
Detection of monoclonal antibodies specific for carbohydrate epitopes using periodate oxidation.
These log-linear phases most likely are describing the time constant of the ratelimiting reaction in the alternative oxidation pathway.
These side reactions occur on the millisecond timescale and therefore do not compete with the main electron transfer pathway leading to water oxidation.
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