oxidizable

1. 1.

   capable of undergoing a chemical reaction with oxygen

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Questions about oxidizable

What does oxidizable mean?

oxidizable means "capable of undergoing a chemical reaction with oxygen".

How many syllables are in oxidizable?

oxidizable has 5 syllables and divides as ox-i-di-za-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is oxidizable a common word?

oxidizable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.