oxidative
English
Adjective
oxidative (not comparable)
- (chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
- 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist[1], 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.
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Relating to oxidation
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German
Adjective
oxidative
- inflection of oxidativ: