deoxygenation
- noun
- /diˌɒksɪdʒəˈneɪʃən/
- Specialized
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desoxigenación
- The deoxygenation of the water caused many fish to suffocate.
Examples
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Deoxygenation in the ocean can lead to dead zones where marine life cannot survive.
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Scientists measured the deoxygenation levels in the lake after the algae bloom.
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In addition, they noted that significant deoxygenation occurred during suctioning.
Academic text (2004) -
The region between 50 and 25 m is subjected year-round to frequent, severe deoxygenation.
Academic text (1992) -
These universal components are accompanied by more idiosyncratic ones during atypical floods (for example, the cooling and deoxygenation that follow sudden releases of water from the hypolimnion of large reservoirs).
Academic text (2006)
Antonyms
How Oxygenated
Surface Forms
Morphology
deoxygenation = deoxygenate (transparent) = de + oxygen + ation
This is a regular noun formation from the verb 'deoxygenate' meaning the process of removing oxygen.
Etymology
The word deoxygenation breaks into de- meaning 'remove', as in dehydrate, and oxygen, the gas living things need. So deoxygenation is the process of taking oxygen away, in other words 'removing oxygen', which explains its modern meaning.