Word Meanings - OXYGENATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• OXYGENIZE
  To oxidize.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• OXYGENATOR
  An oxidizer.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• OXYGENIC
  Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• OXYGENIUM
  The technical name of oxygen.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• OXIDATION
  The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
• COMBINED
  United closely; confederated; chemically united.
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• COMBINATE
  United; joined; betrothed.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• OXYGENOUS
  Oxygenic.
• OXYGEN
  A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.
• DEOXYGENATE
  To deoxidize.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• DISOXYGENATE
  To deprive of oxygen; to deoxidize.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• DEOXYGENIZE
  To deoxidize.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.