"Oxidation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... years ago, covered over a sepulchral crypt. At the southeastern extremity was picked up a badly baked hand-made earthenware vase with four handles. Beside the vase lay a skull, on which could be made out traces of oxidation, which had probably been caused by the wearing of a metal band, which has not been found. This skull bears on the right side a little oval hole with cicatrized edges about an inch long by two fifths of an inch broad. The discovery ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... solution of acetic acid, together with various other ingredients which have come from the materials furnishing the acid. In the manufacture of vinegar, alcohol is always used as the source of the acetic acid. The production of acetic acid from alcohol is a simple oxidation. The equation C2H6O O2 C2H4O2 H2O shows the chemical change that occurs. This oxidation can be brought about by purely chemical means. While alcohol will not readily unite with oxygen under common conditions, if the alcohol is allowed to pass over a bit of platinum sponge the ...
— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn
... bioplasm^, biotaxy^, chromosome, dysmeromorph^; ecology, oecology; erythroblast [Physio.], gametangium^, gamete, germinal matter, invagination [Biol.]; isogamy^, oogamy^; karyaster^; macrogamete^, microgamete^; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm^, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary^, spermatozoon, trophoplasm^, vacuole, vertebration^, zoogloea^, zygote. Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism. morphology, taxonomy. Adj. organic, organized; karyoplasmic^, unsegmentic^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... action of our bodies is enough to reveal the following distinctive characters: our bodies are continually breathing, that is, they take in oxygen from the surrounding air; they take in certain substances known as food, similar to those composing the body, which are capable through a process called oxidation, or through other chemical changes, of setting free a certain ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
... electricity from sparking when contact is made, so that there is no oxidation of the mercury. The mechanism is singularly beautiful, and it is quite fascinating to watch the self acting starting, stopping, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various |
