What's the difference between oxidation and rusting?

Oxidation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Compound Z has the properties expected of an oxidized MPT precursor.
  • (2) PMNs could be primed for PMA-triggered oxidative burst by muramyl peptide molecules (MDP) and two of its adjuvant active nonpyrogenic derivatives.
  • (3) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
  • (4) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
  • (5) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
  • (6) Nitrous oxide, 60% (P less than 0.025) and 80% (P less than 0.02), caused significant increases in release of beta-endorphin.
  • (7) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
  • (8) Peripheral blood monocytes undergo an oxidative burst similar to that seen in neutrophils.
  • (9) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
  • (10) EDRF is even more labile than prostacyclin, with a half-life of about 6 seconds, and it has recently been identified as nitric oxide.
  • (11) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
  • (12) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
  • (13) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.
  • (14) In the present work, we measured the inactivation of methionine synthase and the concurrent homocysteine export rate of two murine and four human cell lines during nitrous oxide exposure.
  • (15) These series were prepared by oxidation of the new hydroquinone precursors.
  • (16) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
  • (17) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
  • (18) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
  • (19) Rapid reaction studies show the formation of an intermediate which is common to both the oxidation and inactivation pathways.
  • (20) During the carcinogens metabolism compounds are assumed to be formed, those are able to affect oxidative phosphorylation without forming any stable link with the respiratory chain components.

Rusting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rust

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reasoning in Rust v Sullivan allows government to limit freedom of speech in federally funded programs.
  • (2) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
  • (3) The cause, they claimed, was emissions from the mine's sulphuric acid factory as well as outflow from mountains of rust-red waste, dumped over 15 years with little concern for the environment.
  • (4) The bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, undergoes thigmotropic differentiation to produce infection structures.
  • (5) Pain relief is more rapid after electric drill removal; this is probably related to the complete removal of the rust.
  • (6) And no wonder: unemployment in the Garden State is at a 35-year high of 9.8% – the fourth-worst in the nation – and unlike in the Rust Belt states or other hard-hit regions, in Jersey unemployment is still climbing .
  • (7) Hill, who cut an unusual touchline figure in green jacket and rust cords, preferred to praise Wednesday for the quality of their set plays rather than blast his defenders for their inability to defend them.
  • (8) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
  • (9) The rusted bike was found in a large white container where its owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, had kept it.
  • (10) Mr X invested money into buying old equipment from other abandoned coal mines – this was not difficult because abandoned mines with rusting equipment are not in short supply in North Korea today.
  • (11) This week a beachcomber in British Columbia found a moving crate containing a rusting Harley-Davidson motorcycle registered to Japan's Miyagi prefecture, which absorbed the brunt of the tsunami.
  • (12) One white lump sits beside the rusted-out remains of a bucket.
  • (13) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
  • (14) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
  • (15) The best actress award Last year Marion Cotillard's turn in Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone , as a waterpark trainer who loses her legs, was beaten to the best actress award by two troubled nuns in Romanian drama Beyond the Hills.
  • (16) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
  • (17) Naturally, insider accounts suggest electoral calculation : Trump reckoned that the people who put him in the White House, especially blue collar workers in the rust-belt states, have long seen global warming as a con.
  • (18) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
  • (19) Where other politicians might be accused of dog-whistle politics, Trump was broadcasting at a frequency accessible to all, exploiting the nation’s three biggest weaknesses: rust, race and ignorance.
  • (20) Steel surfaces can be treated with zinc and chromates to prevent the steel from rusting.