How to Use oxide in a Sentence

oxide

noun
Definition of oxidenext
  • Next came red oxide to make orange, zinc for white, and a form of graphite to make black.
    — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Alex gets pulled out of the zinc, through the circuit and into the manganese oxide.
    — Robert Masse, The Conversation, 15 July 2019
  • Nitrous oxide is thought to work in the same way as ketamine, Nagele said.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 June 2021
  • Again, there are structural issues here with how the oxide forms.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Soot, dust, ozone, and sulfur oxides are a growing threat for billions of people around the world.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The bits are further improved with a black oxide coating to reduce wear.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, the entire knife is blacked-out, with black oxide handle screws, pocket clip, and back spacer.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There, miners drill holes, pack them with explosives, and blast open the rock to extract dense rare-earth oxide ore.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Light, in the form of the laser paintbrush, bounced off of this metal oxide film, producing a spectrum of nine colors.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2021
  • In this case, copper oxide and strontium carbonate get the job done.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • Most of the time, they’re set so only around half of the lithium in the lithium cobalt oxide layer is removed during one full charge.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The company used uranium oxide in the glaze to achieve this color.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Researchers said the soil's iron oxide, which gives the planet its reddish color, acts as a binding agent.
    — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Nitrous oxide emissions were not high on Rochin’s list of worries.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Craftsmen fill large handmade clay pots with one and a half tons of silica and boron oxide powders.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The real problem—and the one that got VW in trouble—involves nitrogen oxides, or NOx.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 July 2017
  • The barbell is made from high-quality steel with an oxide finish.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Magnesium oxide and senna are both available over-the-counter (OTC).
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 2 June 2023
  • Graphene oxide is not included in the ingredient lists of any of the Covid-19 vaccines authorized for use in the US.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
  • But the oxide gas is the only method for cleaning many devices made from plastic, metal or glass, according to the FDA.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2019
  • One took advantage of grains of the mineral manganese oxide that formed when the surface was first exposed to rain.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
  • Every battery has two core parts, an oxide electrode and a graphite electrode.
    — Ian Morse, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • Aluminum powder and iron oxide can burn rapidly when mixed.
    — Ken Ritter, The Seattle Times, 20 June 2017
  • When graphene oxide is dry, mosquitoes can’t produce enough force to puncture it.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Next, place an aluminum-oxide grinding stone into the rotary tool and tighten the collet nut.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Here, the team found a thin layer of vanadium oxide, but struggled to work out how this could have formed, for the statue’s bronze shows no trace of vanadium.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • The risk, though, is that such a large influx of supply would crash the uranium oxide market and weaken the high-stakes economics of the project itself.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The Illinois team’s implants look like the heads of miniature hairbrushes and are made of iridium oxide, a type of metal.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Of those, 21 proposed to do nothing to limit their nitrogen (not nitrous) oxide emissions.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 10 July 2024
  • Chloé signature fragrance was created around a rose oxide and had a campaign featuring three women.
    — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024

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