Deoxidation

Deoxidation is the term applied to the process of withdrawing the oxygen from a compound, as in the reduction of the native peroxide of iron in the smelting-furnaces to the condition of metallic iron. On the small scale, in experimental inquiries, the process of deoxidation may be carried on before the Blowpipe (q.v.), where the inner or reducing flame is essentially a deoxidising one.