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Professor Sacks added that Sauvignon Blanc based-wines are some of "the most readily oxidizable."

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2022

Helium is important as an inert atmosphere for the melting and welding of easily oxidizable metals and for many chemical processes that are sensitive to air.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Many luminescent creatures secrete an easily oxidizable compound, luciferin, which is oxidized with the help of an enzyme, luciferase.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, it may be assumed that easily oxidizable substances, such as aldehydes and acids, are possibly protected against too rapid, or premature, oxidation by being transformed into glucosides.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

That the process was wholly an oxidising one, the work being done entirely by the oxygen set free from the hypochlorous acids in the presence of oxidizable matter....

From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph