Definition of "oxidations" [oxidations]

• Plural form of oxidation. (noun)

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• "Her research involved, successively, identification and syntheses of a number of metabolites of carcinogenic and related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); simulation in vitro of biological oxidations of PAHs; isolation of carcinogens from shale oil and coal tar; and, from the 1960s, studies on the carcinogenic action of certain pyrrolizidine (Senecio) alkaloids and their ability to induce chronic lesions and tumors in the liver, pancreas, etc., and of diazomethane and certain nitroso compounds."
• "Subsequent distribution of oxygen in the water of thermally stratified lakes is controlled by a number of solubility conditions, hydrodynamics, inputs from photosynthesis, and losses to chemical and metabolic oxidations (processes with compounds that gain oxygen)."
• "Upon burning in the atmosphere, all kinds of unknown oxidations of metals and other chemicals are released into our atmosphere, the heavier ones falling to dust upon us, into our lungs, rivers, oceans, crops etc."