"Oxidating" is a word in ENGLISH
of Oxidate
I shall always attribute my uncertain start in New Zealand to the fact that I was introduced too early to what is knows as the 'five o'clock swill'. The phrase has, when you consider it, a wonderful pastoral - one might almost say idyllic - ring to it. It conjures up a picture of fat but hungry porcines, all freshly scrubbed, eagerly and gratefully partaking of their warm mash from the horny but kindly hands of the jovial farmer, a twinkling eyed son of the soil.Nothing could be further from the truth.The five o'clock swill is the direct result of New Zealand's imbecilic licensing laws. In order to prevent people getting drunk the pubs close at six, just after the workers leave work. This means they have to leave their place of employment, rush frantically to the nearest pub, and make a desperate attempt to drink as much beer as they can in the shortest possible time. As a means of cutting down drunkenness, this is quite one of the most illogical deterrents I have come across.
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A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.
Read the complete definitionA colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Read the complete definitionA spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's …
Read the complete definitionAn oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.
Read the complete definitionThe metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance …
Read the complete definitionA salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of …
Read the complete definitionIn medical jurisprudence. (1) Loss of sensatlon, or insensibility to paln, general or local, induced by the ad-ministration or application …
Read the complete definitionAn oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements …
Read the complete definitionA hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.
Read the complete definitionArsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.
Read the complete definitionOne of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a …
Read the complete definitionAn oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
Read the complete definitionA glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several …
Read the complete definitionA yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl …
Read the complete definitionA mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green …
Read the complete definitionA green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.
Read the complete definitionIndurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.
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