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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Weichai has joined with Ceres for solid-oxide fuel cells.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 1 Oct. 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
• The air quality permit is required for the mining of two deposits: Taylor sulfide, a zinc-lead-silver deposit that will be mined for zinc and lead; and Clark oxide, a zinc-manganese-silver deposit that will be mined for manganese.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2024
• Impressive copper rich outcrops (formed from blue azurite, a copper oxide) have been identified with many assay results in the laboratory, including channel sampling up to 192 m long (Picture 1).
  — Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024