oxidate
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It has become a brown infusible substance, which does not shine in the dark nor oxidate in the air.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
If we use an uniform and homogeneous disc of silver that has never been hammered or compressed, its surface will oxidate equally, provided all its parts are equally heated.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 by Various
By pounding you end up with less oxidated paste, that will keep longer and cook up better.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2020
In this last process, while the carbon is burning away, the metallic bases of the earths are then oxidated, combine with oxide of iron, and form a vitreous substance.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
I have found from numerous trials that it is always the raised parts of the coin, and in modern coins the elevated ledge round the inscription, that becomes first oxidated.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 by Various
It is not indeed necessary to use any metal; for a piece of charcoal, oxidated in the same way, produces galvanism; so does fresh muscular fibre, and perhaps any substance capable of oxidation.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
The limestone contains masses of brown oxidated iron and carbonate of iron.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Oxide of bismuth is reduced, by fusion with carbonate of soda, as well in the oxidating as in the reducing flame, instantly to metallic bismuth.
Besides, this kind of glass is easily fusible in the oxidating flame of the blowpipe, while, in the reducing flame, its ready decomposition would preclude its use entirely.
When the atmosphere is impure the oxidating processes are much diminished.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.
The intermittent flame may be readily attained, not by varying the force of the air from the mouth, but by raising and depressing the bead before the point of the steady oxidating flame.
