oxidation

See also: Oxidation

English

Etymology

From French oxydation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

oxidation (countable and uncountable, plural oxidations)

1. The combination of a substance with oxygen.
2. (chemistry) A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the oxidation state of the element increases.

Antonyms

• reduction
• deoxidation
• deoxy

Derived terms

• oxidational

Related terms

• oxidate
• oxidative
• oxide
• oxidise

Translations

combination of a substance with oxygen

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氧化 (zh) (yǎnghuà)

• Czech: oxidace (cs) f
• Finnish: hapettuminen (fi)
• French: oxydation (fr) f
• German: Oxidation (de) f, Oxydation (de) f
• Hungarian: oxidálás
• Italian: ossidazione (it) f

• Japanese: 酸化 (ja) (さんか, sanka)
• Kalmyk: исән (isän)
• Korean: 산화 (ko) (sanhwa) (酸化 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: оксидирлөө (oksidirlöö)
• Maori: ōhikitanga
• Portuguese: oxidação (pt)
• Russian: окисле́ние (ru) n (okislénije), оксида́ция (ru) f (oksidácija)
• Spanish: oxidación (es) f
• Turkish: paslanma (tr)

chemical reaction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氧化作用 (zh) (yǎnghuà zuòyòng)

• Czech: oxidace (cs) f
• Dutch: oxidatie (nl)
• Finnish: hapetus (fi)
• French: oxydation (fr) f
• German: Oxidation (de) f
• Hindi: रेडॉक्स (reḍŏks)
• Hungarian: oxidáció (hu)
• Japanese: 酸化 (ja) (さんか, sanka)
• Kalmyk: исән (isän)

• Korean: 산화 (ko) (sanhwa) (酸化 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: оксидирлөө (oksidirlöö)
• Maori: ōhikitanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oksidasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: oksidasjon m

• Polish: utlenianie (pl) n
• Portuguese: oxidação (pt) f
• Russian: окисле́ние (ru) n (okislénije), оксида́ция (ru) f (oksidácija)
• Tagalog: sadagisik
• Turkish: oksitlenme (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} ossidazione (it) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} oxidación (es) f

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} oxidation (sv), oxidering