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Peroxide   /pərˈɑksˌaɪd/   Listen
Peroxide

noun
1.
A viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used (in aqueous solutions) as a mild disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels.  Synonym: hydrogen peroxide.
2.
An inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O-.
verb
1.
Bleach with peroxide.



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"Peroxide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Doubtless, upon provocation, they are "spearing" others as they speared the outraged clergyman. But that's all. The bepunctured ones do not seek the consolations of medical or journalistic attention. They put a little wet mud or peroxide on the place and let it go at ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... infectious mastitis. It may be due to a bruise or blow or infection introduced through the milk duct. The first is most likely. Apply camphorated oil externally and inject into the affected udder some hydrogen dioxide (peroxide of hydrogen. - EDITOR.). After ten minutes, milk out ...
— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson
... relief as he slammed that door. He thus shut behind him such disagreeable facts as favorite ballads and peroxide blondes. It was like shunting a burden ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... The peroxide of manganese, which forms the base of an excellent battery for giving a small rendering, possesses at first better conductivity than oxide of copper, but this property is lost by reduction and transformation into ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various
... in water and not combining with it are hygrometric, and condense its vapour around or upon their surface, are stronger instances of the same power, and approach a little nearer to the cases under investigation. If pulverized clay, protoxide or peroxide of iron, oxide of manganese, charcoal, or even metals, as spongy platina or precipitated silver, be put into an atmosphere containing vapour of water, they soon become moist by virtue of an attraction which is able to condense the vapour upon, although not to combine it with, the substances; ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday


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