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"For modern Earth we know the answer -- sulfite loves to oxidize, or react with oxygen, so it'll go away super-fast."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Because the process of nuclear fission does not burn or oxidize anything, nearly all the fuel used in producing energy at nuclear plants becomes waste without reducing its mass.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024

These, Borduas-Dedekind explains, oxidize in the air, forming larger molecules that can easily absorb water and form clouds.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 16, 2024

Over time, the shiny brass exterior will oxidize, giving the pencil holder a vintage, worn-in feel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Perhaps there is an exotic inorganic chemistry in the Martian soil that is able by itself, in the absence of Martian microbes, to oxidize foodstuffs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

When olive oil is exposed to fluctuations in temperature, light and air, which oxidizes the oil to its detriment, its quality diminishes.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

The final improved enzyme does not directly cleave the silicon-carbon bond but rather oxidizes a methyl group in the siloxanes in two sequential steps.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024

Food is an organic compound: it congeals, runs, discolors and oxidizes over time and because of the conditions in the kitchen you’re shooting in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

A green, fuzzy coating grows on it as its surface oxidizes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2023

"Over time, it partly oxidizes, which keeps providing sites for nutrients to bind to."

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"In the process, the fuel oxidized into various uranium oxides" - such as U3O8.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

They don’t have coffee, but they do have Jeju Island–grown “Regenerative Organic-Certified” black tea oxidized as matcha.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

“I was talking about stale, oxidized matcha powder, but I completely get that it came off a very wrong way. I chose the wrong words and I really apologize for that.”

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

She also suggested the Republic of Tea’s Darjeeling Black Full Leaf Tea, which “is less oxidized than most black teas, so you're going to get more fruity flavors and more floral flavors,” Ziata explained.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

It had a forlorn baseball diamond and some oxidized playground equipment.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

This approach has attracted growing interest because it may reduce the need for some of the chemical oxidizing and reducing agents commonly used in traditional manufacturing.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

At an Alaskan research station she inhales the scent of oxidizing permafrost: “Pleistocene-aged grass, mammoth bones, and thousands and thousands of years of microbial cells.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

And a 2016 US government study found perchlorate, an oxidizing agent used in fireworks, had made its way into groundwater and surface water around Mount Rushmore National Memorial, which holds annual July 4 shows.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

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