peroxide

See also: Peroxide

English

Etymology

From per- +‎ oxide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈrɒksʌɪd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

peroxide (countable and uncountable, plural peroxides)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A divalent radical or anion containing two oxygen atoms linked by a covalent bond; any substance containing this group yields hydrogen peroxide when treated with an acid.
2. Hydrogen peroxide, especially when in an aqueous solution used as a bleach.
3. (organic chemistry) Any compound containing the functional group R-O-O-R'.
   • 1975 March 23, Jane Brody, “Clue to Cancer Found in Breast Fluid”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Thus far, Dr. Petrakis said, he had found that in women with […] extractable breast fluid, the amount of lipid peroxides in the fluid was on the average seven times higher in Caucasian women than in women of Chinese de[s]cent. In addition, women with cystic breast disease, who face a higher than usual risk of breast cancer, appear to have more peroxides in their breast fluid than women with normal breasts.

   • 2007, Robert B. Grossman, The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, →ISBN:

     The O–O bond in benzoyl peroxide and the C–N bonds in AIBN homolyze under thermal or photochemical conditions.

Derived terms

• acetone peroxide
• benzole peroxide
• benzoyl peroxide
• calcium peroxide
• high-test peroxide
• hydrogen peroxide
• lithium peroxide
• magnesium peroxide
• methyl ethyl ketone peroxide
• peroxidase
• peroxide blond
• peroxide blonde
• peroxide process
• plumbic peroxide
• potassium peroxide
• sodium peroxide
• terbium peroxide

 

Related terms

• peroxidase

Translations

chemical compound with two oxygen atoms

• Bulgarian: прекис (bg) m (prekis)
• Catalan: peròxid m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過氧化物 / 过氧化物 (zh) (guòyǎnghuàwù)

• Czech: peroxid (cs) m
• Dutch: peroxide (nl) n
• Finnish: peroksidi (fi)
• French: peroxyde (fr) m
• Georgian: ზეჟანგი (zežangi), პეროქსიდი (ṗeroksidi)
• German: Peroxid (de) n
• Hungarian: peroxid (hu)
• Icelandic: peroxíð n
• Indonesian: peroksida (id)
• Italian: perossido (it) m
• Japanese: 過酸化物 (かさんかぶつ, kasankabutsu)
• Khmer: ពែអុកស៊ីត (pɛɛʼoksiit)
• Maori: waikuratei
• Polish: nadtlenek (pl) m
• Portuguese: peróxido m
• Russian: пе́рекись (ru) f (pérekisʹ), перокси́д (ru) m (peroksíd)
• Spanish: peróxido m

hydrogen peroxide — see hydrogen peroxide

Verb

peroxide (third-person singular simple present peroxides, present participle peroxiding, simple past and past participle peroxided)

1. (transitive) To treat (something) with hydrogen peroxide, especially hair in order to bleach it.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: per‧oxi‧de

Noun

peroxide n (plural peroxiden or peroxides)

1. peroxide

Derived terms

• waterstofperoxide