English

Adjective

oxidative ‎(not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
   • 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83:

     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

Translations

German

Adjective

oxidative

1. inflected form of oxidativ