oxidative

English

Adjective

oxidative (not comparable)

(chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
- 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 83:
  It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

Antonyms

reductive

Derived terms

Translations

Relating to oxidation

French: oxydatif (fr)
Hungarian: oxidatív
Italian: ossidativo

Portuguese: oxidativo
Spanish: oxidativo

German

Adjective

oxidative

inflected form of oxidativ

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