oxidize

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After tea leaves for black tea are plucked, they're withered, rolled, oxidized for varying amounts of time, then dried.

From Salon

But methane, the second-most important greenhouse gas, lingers in the atmosphere for only about a decade before being oxidized to form carbon dioxide.

From Salon

This oxidizes the oils, and oxidized oils are inflammatory.

From Seattle Times

People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.

From Salon

In the process, the iron oxidizes, grabbing oxygen atoms from water molecules and releasing hydrogen.

From Science Magazine