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under-oxygenated en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of underoxygenated.
   alt of underoxygenated
   • Most of us chronically recycle impure, under-oxygenated blood through our bodies day after day, year after year. 2005, Constance Grauds, Doug Childers, The Energy Prescription, page 56:
   • But there is also, on occasion, an under-oxygenated air of fantasy, a shimmering mirage of whitelessness and Asian self-sufficiency. 1999, Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, page 71:
   • More generally, combustion in highly under-oxygenated environments of hydrocarbon molecules produces solid C and that of molecules containing halogen X atoms (with X = F, Cl, Br or I), produces HX compounds, or even COX2, when the medium is highly oxygenated. 2023, Jacques Chaineaux, The Mechanisms of Explosions, page 26:

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