Sentence examples for oxidizing from inspiring English sources

All the nitrogen oxides are, in fact, good oxidizing agents.

Manganese in oxidation state +7 is powerfully oxidizing, usually being reduced to manganese in the +2 state.

Nonoxidizing acids, such as hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and sulfuric acid, are particularly useful when oxidizing conditions would produce a protective oxide film on the sample surfaces.

Palladium chloride together with salts of copper in the +1 oxidation state forms a homogeneous catalyst for oxidizing ethylene to acetaldehyde (Wacker process), but commercial use of this process has been abandoned.

Oxidizing roasts are exothermic.

Multiple-hearth roasters also have found wide acceptance in that they can be used for oxidizing, sulfatizing, chloridizing, volatilizing, reducing, and calcining processes.

In England in 1871, Hermann Sprengel patented combinations of oxidizing agents such as chlorates, nitrates, and nitric acid with combustible substances such as nitronaphthalene, benzene, and nitrobenzene.

Nitrogen dioxide is prepared commercially by oxidizing NO with air, but it can be prepared in the laboratory by heating the nitrate of a heavy metal, as in the following equation,2Pb NO3 2 + heat → 2PbO + 4NO2 + O2, or by adding copper metal to concentrated nitric acid.

Most of these residuals are present in scrap and, instead of oxidizing during steelmaking, they accumulate and increase in recycled scrap.

Another common redox reaction is one step in the rusting of iron in damp air.2Fe(s) + 2H2O l) + O2(g) → 2Fe(OH)2(s) Here iron metal is oxidized to iron dihydroxide (Fe(OH 2); elemental oxygen (O2) is the oxidizing agent.

Methane-oxidizing bacteria in the genus Methylosinus also produce desiccation-resistant spores, called exospores.