oxidant

[ ok-si-duhnt ]

noun

1. a chemical agent that oxidizes.

oxidant

/ ˈɒksɪdənt /

noun

1. a substance that acts or is used as an oxidizing agent Also called (esp in rocketry)oxidizer

Word History and Origins

Origin of oxidant¹

First recorded in 1880–85; oxide + -ant

Example Sentences

This is possible because the photocatalyst acts as an "electron shuttle," taking electrons or donating them to material in the presence of sacrificial weak oxidants or reductants.

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Cooking foods can release brown carbon, molecules with the potential to create oxidants when they absorb light.

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Only a few transition metal complexes with Earth-abundant metal ions have so far advanced to excited state oxidants, including chromium, iron, and cobalt.

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On Earth, the development of technology demanded easy access to open-air combustion -- the process at the heart of fire, in which something is burned by combining a fuel and an oxidant, usually oxygen.

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The volatile “olefin” part of the chemical reacts with hydroxyl radicals, highly reactive oxidants known to degrade air pollutants.

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