Definition of "deoxidizes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deoxidize. (verb)

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• "First the plant collects its carbon compounds from the air in the oxidized state; it deoxidizes and rebuilds them: and then the animal proceeds to burn them up by slow combustion within his own body, and to turn them loose upon the air, once more oxidized."
• ""These are necessarily the converse of each other: the one deoxidizes and accumulates, the other oxidizes and expends.""
• "_immediate action_ of the solar rays is not exerted on these salts, but on the iron contained in the ferruginous solution added to them, which it deoxidizes or otherwise alters, thereby presenting it to the ferrocyanic salts in such a form as to precipitate the acids in combination with the peroxide, or protoxide of iron, as the case may be."