Peroxide

//pəˈrɒksʌɪd//

"Peroxide" in a Sentence (10 examples)

She bleached her hair blond with peroxide.

What's the chemical formula for hydrogen peroxide?

Hydrogen peroxide bubbles when put on a wound.

Do you have hydrogen peroxide?

Under normal conditions, the vagina is colonized primarily by lacto-bacilli, which produce hydrogen peroxide — or most of which produce hydrogen peroxide — that maintains an acidic pH in the vagina.

Spores from Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 are proving to have the ability to resist the techniques to clean spacecraft, like ultraviolet radiation and peroxide treatment.

Yuri was holding a bandage and peroxide.

Carbamide peroxide is also used as a disinfectant and in dentistry for its teeth whitening effects.

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.

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

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