Andrew Weil

I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.

American Scientist

Mel Gibson

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

Actor

Oxidize usually refers to non-living things like metals, not biological organisms.

Non-living Things

Oxidize often implies a natural, gradual process, not something quick or instant.

Natural Process

The term can imply damage or degradation, as with rust or corrosion.

Negative Connotation

In chemistry, oxidizing is about an atom losing electrons, not just combining with oxygen.

Electron Loss

Oxidize refers to chemical changes which often result in new substances.

Chemical Changes

In some reactions, to oxidize can also mean that a substance gains oxygen.

Gain of Oxygen

 they expose more surface area for these microbial enzymes to oxidize and mineralize. Even the excretions they leave behind are mined by microbes. This continues until the apple is reduced to nothing— a process that would take one to two months in a temperate forest. Environments that are hot and wet support more microbes

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 We can think of the earth as a battery. In the sub-surface, in those liquids and those gases, those chemicals are said to be reduced. There are a lot of electrons. On the very thin rind of the planet that we operate in, the atmosphere, the surface world, the ocean, that's said to be oxidized. So where these places meet,

Searching For Life in...

 They take iron and manganese minerals within the bedrock and they oxidize them. And every time they do that, they get a tiny little packet of energy. And that tiny little packet of energy is what they use, then, to run their life processes. Interestingly enough, they also do this

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 making more electrons available for oxidation the next time you need them. But even rechargeable batteries don't last forever. Over time, the repetition of this process causes imperfections and irregularities in the metal's surface that prevent it from oxidizing properly.

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 should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been plowed through the peat lines are very bad at drying out the peat and breaking it up once the peat is exposed to the air it starts to always oxidize and deteriorate and every time a peat is

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 So the gases in the atmosphere were on a one-way trip to be oxidized and placed into minerals. So if you increase the amount of sunlight with mirrors, or whatever, you can sublimate, get more water vapor in the atmosphere, more rain. But what's going to happen?

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 but these zirconium claddings on these fuel rods, what happens is, when they see high pressure water, steam, in an oxidizing environment, they'll actually produce hydrogen, and that hydrogen has this explosive capability to release fission products.

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 and when water had enough energy, it broke up into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen being so light, it escaped into space, and the oxygen that was left oxidized or rusted the ground, making that familiar rusty red color that we see.

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 so they just took pulled out and turned the pumps off which was pumping the water out of the mine site and what happens is when you have water that mixes with a copper and it oxidizes it's one of its byproducts is arsenic and the

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 For example, when factories burn coal, they release high concentrations of sulfur oxides. These molecules oxidize to form sulfates, which condense with water vapor in the air to form a blanket of fine particles