Sentence examples for oxygenate from inspiring English sources

She talks endlessly about chlorophyll, for example: how it's "high in oxygen" and will "oxygenate your blood" – but chlorophyll will only make oxygen in the presence of light.

In this case, the ethanol is used simply as an oxygenate (ie, an oxygen-rich additive) to reduce the carbon monoxide produced during combustion and to raise the octane rating of the fuel enough to protect the engine from "knocking" under load a condition caused by the air-fuel mixture in the cylinders exploding prematurely instead of burning smoothly.

Burrowing animals generate a respiratory current along their burrow systems to oxygenate their dwelling places; the influx of oxygen must be constantly maintained because the surrounding anoxic layer quickly depletes the burrow of oxygen.

Pressure has been building on intensive care in recent days with the worst affected patients treated on Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) machines which bypass the lungs to artificially oxygenate the blood.

Previously, MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether) was the oxygenate of choice, but fell out of favour in 2004 when it was found to contaminate ground water.

Most of the work, the cost of which is thought to have been around €100m, involved soil-vapour extraction, venting and spurging, techniques that removed harmful gases and injected air to oxygenate the soil and underground water sources.Few regeneration projects in England escape the problem of soil remediation.

These growths are believed to release oxygen from the blood, thereby oxygenating the water around the young.

(Prior to this test, the patient is fully oxygenated by being made to breathe 100 percent oxygen for several minutes, and diffusion oxygenation into the trachea is maintained throughout the procedure. These precautions ensure that the patient will not suffer serious oxygen deprivation while disconnected from the ventilator).

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As photosynthesis in the Cyanobacteria of Precambrian times (before 542 million years ago) oxygenated the atmosphere, the ratio of carbon dioxide to oxygen fell drastically, and Rubisco began to function more and more as an oxygenase.

She is being treated with a specialised procedure called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), in which her blood is circulated through a machine and oxygenated artificially.