oxidization

oxidization: It's what we're doing. Combining with oxygen. Rusting, burning. Oxidizing. Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen ... that's about it. What I don't know about chemistry could fill many a library. But I know that those three elements make just about everything. Add nitrogen, everything else. It's a conspiracy.

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oxidization n.
The process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons. The process always occurs accompanied by reduction.

Syn: oxidation, oxidisation.
[WordNet 1.5]

-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

oxidization
n : the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction [syn: oxidation, oxidisation]

-- From WordNet (r) 2.0