oxidizing

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The presence of electric discharges shows that the atmosphere can reach charge levels high enough to speed up the creation of highly oxidizing compounds.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

All these photocatalysts require high energy light for excitation and their oxidizing power has not yet been fully exploited.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024

There, parked in a driveway at the rear of a home, is an odd-looking, flat-nosed, miniature-size pickup, rust holes here and there, its red paint oxidizing.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023

In her visually complex raku-fired pieces at Craft Contemporary, she embraces the oxidizing of glazes and leaves imprints of her hands in the clay, emphasizing the collaboration between herself and the material.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2023

The transition to an oxidizing atmosphere posed a supreme crisis in the history of life, and a great many organisms, unable to cope with oxygen, perished.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan