oxidize

Example Sentences

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New copper gutters will oxidize in about a year to create a vintage look, Smith said.

From Washington Post

Some bottles will be oxidized, yielding metallic flavors; other bottles will taste “cooked,” in Lickliter’s words, with liqueurs and fruit-forward spirits especially prone to such effects, yielding a liquor that tastes more like syrup.

From Los Angeles Times

It has a noticeable orange hue—most of the surface is covered in oxidized iron-rich dust, so it’s literally rusty.

From Scientific American

The hardest problem with making steel is that it involves extracting iron from iron ore — which is essentially rust, containing iron in an oxidized form.

From Scientific American

Tawny Port is aged in wooden barrels, and the air that gets to it oxidizes it, making it sweeter, golden brown and nutty.

From Seattle Times