protoxidize

English

Etymology

protoxide +‎ -ize

Verb

protoxidize (third-person singular simple present protoxidizes, present participle protoxidizing, simple past and past participle protoxidized)

1. (chemistry, transitive) To combine (an elementary substance) with oxygen, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “protoxidize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)