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Oxidative vs Nonoxidative - What's the difference?

oxidative | nonoxidative |

As adjectives the difference between oxidative and nonoxidative

is that oxidative is (chemistry) of, relating to, or produced by oxidation while nonoxidative is not oxidative.

oxidative

English

Adjective

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  • (chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
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    • , author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= citation , passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}

    Antonyms

    *reductive

    nonoxidative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not oxidative