: a binary compound of oxygen with a more electropositive element or group
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Using natural oxide pigments and graphite, Pacheco depicts a clash between Meso-American and Spanish cultures, with references to the working-class culture of his parents and masters of Mexican art like Diego Rivera.
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Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Even large companies typically perform just one or at most two of the four major steps along the path to making a rare-earth magnet: mining the ore, refining the ore into rare-earth oxides, reducing the oxides to metals, and then, finally, using the metals to make magnets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
The upshot: The catalyst’s output jumped fivefold, to nearly that of iridium oxide.
—science.org, 23 Jan. 2025
It’s also called a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor or MOSFET law, which, to some outside of the industry, is unpardonably wonkish.
—John Werner, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Even large companies typically perform just one or at most two of the four major steps along the path to making a rare-earth magnet: mining the ore, refining the ore into rare-earth oxides, reducing the oxides to metals, and then, finally, using the metals to make magnets.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
The upshot: The catalyst’s output jumped fivefold, to nearly that of iridium oxide.
—science.org, 23 Jan. 2025
It’s also called a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor or MOSFET law, which, to some outside of the industry, is unpardonably wonkish.
—John Werner, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Oxide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxide. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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oxide
noun
ox·ide
ˈäk-ˌsīd 
: a compound of oxygen with another element or a chemical group
Medical Definition
oxide
noun
ox·ide
ˈäk-ˌsīd
: a binary compound of oxygen with a more electropositive element or chemical group
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