rapid oxidation
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This latter process is one of rapid oxidation.
From Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky by Edward Singleton Holden
The heat of dilution of the sulfuric acid will cause the nitrotoluene to melt, and rapid oxidation will soon take place.
From Organic Syntheses by James Bryant Conant
When the plate is exposed to the air, rapid oxidation takes place because the oxygen of the air has a very large surface to act upon.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte
Hence it is a kind of combustion, although this term is more generally applied to very rapid oxidation, with the evolution of sensible light and heat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
If this rapidly oxidising latex be mixed with normal latex, it would seem that the whole bulk of the latex is affected by this tendency to rapid oxidation.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
