How to Use oxide in a Sentence

oxide

noun
  • 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
  • Again, there are structural issues here with how the oxide forms.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The copper must be recessed from the surface of the oxide just the right amount.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Nitrous oxide is thought to work in the same way as ketamine, Nagele said.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 9 June 2021
  • Alex gets pulled out of the zinc, through the circuit and into the manganese oxide.
    — Robert Masse, The Conversation, 15 July 2019
  • The bits are further improved with a black oxide coating to reduce wear.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The barbell is made from high-quality steel with an oxide finish.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The wafers are pressed together to form an initial bond between the oxides.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Every battery has two core parts, an oxide electrode and a graphite electrode.
    — Ian Morse, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • In this case, copper oxide and strontium carbonate get the job done.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
  • Yang’s team has now recreated this same process using silver ions in oxide.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The goal is for this concentrate to be at least 60 percent rare earth oxides by weight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Nitrous oxide emissions were not high on Rochin’s list of worries.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Soot, dust, ozone, and sulfur oxides are a growing threat for billions of people around the world.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 31 Oct. 2018
  • When graphene oxide is dry, mosquitoes can’t produce enough force to puncture it.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
  • These proteins were mixed with graphene oxide, a material one atom thick.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The black-oxide finish resists rusts as well as corrosion and chipping.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 19 May 2021
  • Once this oxide jacking has started, there is no way to stop it without removing the lintel.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Next, place an aluminum-oxide grinding stone into the rotary tool and tighten the collet nut.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Instead of cosmetics, team members slather their faces with white zinc oxide to protect against the morning sun.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • As a result, the resistance of the metal oxide electrodes changes, which can be measured.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • To form more secure bonds, engineers are flattening the last few nanometers of oxide.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The oxide skin typically has to be broken so the droplets can combine to form a conductive path.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 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

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