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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-.



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"Peroxide" Quotes from Famous Books



... weak chlorine bleach (Clorox) after these heartnuts are hulled does for them what peroxide does for the ladies and makes them ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... insoluble 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 ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... most precious relationship is the only one that reconciles a woman to her wrinkles and makes her happy in her grey hairs. Without it she takes to peroxide, smooths out her wrinkles with cream, and what is even more tragic, developes a tendency to pursue the young men of her children's generation. People call it ridiculous, lunatic,—so it would be, if it were not so nobly, ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici


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