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Peroxide

noun

A viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used (in aqueous solutions) as a mild disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels. Synonym: hydrogen peroxide.

An inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O-.

verb

Bleach with peroxide.

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... a woman's hair gray, and sometimes it merely turns it dark at the roots. A little peroxide ...

— A Guide to Men - Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl • Helen Rowland

... substance to which it is allied in a manner hitherto unexplained. It is distinguished from tannin by causing no precipitate in a solution of gelatine. With a salt of iron it forms a dark blue coloured compound, which is the basis of ink. The finest colour is procured when the peroxide and protoxide of iron are mixed together. This character distinguishes gallic acid from every ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... sand," Paul rattled off, "sodic carbonate, slaked lime, cutlet, manganese peroxide—there you have it, the finest French plate glass, made by the great St. Gobain Company, who made the finest plate glass in the world, and this is the finest piece they ever made. It cost a king's ransom. But look at it! You can't see it. You don't know it's there till you run ...

— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London

... whilst the marble pillars in the basement remain scarcely altered, the granite ones have lost a considerable portion of their surface, which falls off continually in scales, and exhibits everywhere stains from the formation of peroxide of iron. The kaolin, or clay, used in most countries for the manufacture of fine porcelain or china, is generally produced from the feldspar of decomposing granite, in which the cause of decay is the dissolution and separation of the ...

— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy

... with from five to twenty parts of water; and an ointment containing a drachm each of bismuth subnitrate and white precipitate to the ounce. Hydrogen peroxide occasionally acts well. Trichloracetic acid, usually weakened with one or two parts water, may be cautiously tried. The application of a strong alcoholic solution of resorcin, twenty to fifty per cent. strength, is also ...

— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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