They suggest these increases mark moments when the amount of oxygen in seawater went up, because more oxygen would mean more oxidisation of buried organic matter.
This was developed by the American navy as a rocket propellant, a substance which involves the sudden release of energy by rapid oxidisation, in effect a controlled explosion.
Arguably the most chichi pressie for DIY wine-tasters is the Coravin Wine Access System, (£269, harrods.com), which allows the wine to flow out through a needle while leaving the cork in place (preventing oxidisation), meaning you can taste how the same bottle evolves over weeks, months or even longer.
Immediately toss them in the seasoned lemon juice to avoid oxidisation and to pickle them slightly.
After he had taken 18 balls to get off the mark against Leicestershire, and then gone for a single, one caustic comment suggested that to describe his batting as rusty would be an insult to oxidisation.
It's really unique, drilling two metres under the harsh surface, some 40 times deeper than Curiosity and below where harmful UV, oxidisation and radiation can reach.
It doesn't sound appetising, I admit, but given the apples ought to be golden brown with caramel in any case, a little oxidisation is neither here nor there with this dish.
But elsewhere, as though Gibson is deliberately playing with his own most famous line, he trades the device for one of melancholy oxidisation: "The world outside the restaurant's windows... was the colour of a silver coin, misplaced for decades in a drawer".
Innovations such as shrink-wrap packaging are helping prevent oxidisation and extending the product of fresh foods considerably.
[Since] that is the main organ where the oxidisation is taking place, if the lung is affected then the whole of your body will be affected".
How it would have looked when he painted it is another unknown: her currently crepuscular aspect is the result of several centuries of protective varnish, tinged yellowish by oxidisation.
