oxidization

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Every time you put your fork in that ground and pull up soil, you're exposing it to oxidization, and that carbon just evaporates.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

The juice is cooled to 40 to 50 degrees to preserve freshness and prevent oxidization.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2016

The discrepancy might have been the result of oxidization in the bottle or perhaps a sign that the recipe had evolved over the decades.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2013

On machines here, they are lined with paper filters, filled with coffee, topped off with nitrogen gas to prevent oxidization, and sealed with foil.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2010

Various expedients to prevent oxidization were tried, such, for instance, as coating the carbon with powdered glass, which in melting would protect the carbon from the atmosphere, but without successful results.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis