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oxidizer
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oxidizer [′äk·sə‚dīz·ər]
(aerospace engineering)
A substance, not necessarily containing oxygen, that supports the combustion of a fuel or propellant.


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After growing millions of copies of the engineered virus, the researchers incubated them in a solution of cobalt chloride and then put the cobalt-bound virus in another solution to oxidize the metal.
The most common such mutation is oxidation, occurring when free metal ions from copper or iron oxidize the molecules.
5, could oxidize even before their use-by dates due to leaking nitrogen gas used to prevent oxidizing.
 
 
 
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