oxo process

[ ok-soh ]

/ ˈɒk soʊ /

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noun Chemistry.

a process for producing carbonyl compounds, especially alcohols and aldehydes, by adding, under high pressure, carbon monoxide and hydrogen to an olefin in the presence of a cobalt catalyst.

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Also called oxo reaction.

Origin of oxo process

ox- + -o-

Words nearby oxo process

oxolinic acid, Oxon, Oxon Hill, Oxonian, oxonium compound, oxo process, oxpecker, oxtail, oxter, oxtongue, ox-tongue partisan

How to use oxo process in a sentence

In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
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Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
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Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
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“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
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The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
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By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
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The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
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That, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
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A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
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