autoxidation
noun
autoxidation is a noun meaning “A spontaneous oxidation reaction that results in the slow, flameless combustion of a material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-U-T-O-X-I-D-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of autoxidation is autoxidations.
What does autoxidation mean?
noun
- 1
A spontaneous oxidation reaction that results in the slow, flameless combustion of a material.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of autoxidation
- autoxidations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is autoxidation?
Autoxidation appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does autoxidation come from?
From auto- + oxidation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).