Sentence examples for oxidant from inspiring English sources
"oxidant" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used in a scientific context or a chemistry context to describe a chemical substance that increases the oxidation of other substances. For example, "The oxidant reaction in this experiment is necessary to ensure accurate results."
It is a strong oxidant, and it oxidizes the alcohol as far as possible without breaking carbon-carbon bonds.
Pyridinium chlorochromate, often abbreviated PCC, is a milder oxidant than chromic acid and oxidizes most primary alcohols to aldehydes.
In SpaceShipOne, the fuel was rubber and the oxidant a liquefied gas called nitrous oxide.Proponents of hybrids say they are safer than either pure solid or pure liquid rockets.
DMSO finds considerable use in organic synthesis as a mild oxidant in a process termed Swern oxidation.
Acquired methemoglobinemia may arise as a result of contact with certain drugs and chemicals that produce oxidant compounds in the circulation, causing the oxidation of iron to occur faster than the enzyme system can keep it in the reduced state.
Moreover, it is both a strong oxidant and peroxidant and, if formed, may chemically attack (oxidize) a nearby molecule, often the same molecule that sensitized the molecular oxygen.
A number of toxic drugs are oxidants or are transformed into oxidizing substances in the body.
Sulfide minerals (pyrite, or fool's gold, being the most familiar example) also consume oxidants as the sulfur is oxidized to produce sulfate.
Finally, natural exposure of sedimentary organic matter, including coal beds or oil seeps, results in the consumption of atmospheric oxidants as the organic carbon is oxidized to produce carbon dioxide.
As this material is exposed by uplift and erosion, it consumes atmospheric oxidants to form ferric iron (Fe3+), the red, fully oxidized form of iron commonly identified as rust (Fe2O3).
Optically active sulfoxides can be prepared by oxidizing sulfides of type RSR′, where R ≠ R′, with optically active oxidants or microbiological oxidants.
