ScienceAugust 16, 2026

deoxygenation

dee-ok-si-juh-NAY-shun

Definition

The process of reducing or removing dissolved oxygen from a substance or environment, such as a body of water.

Etymology

The word is formed from the prefix 'de-' (meaning removal or reversal) and 'oxygenation' (the process of adding oxygen), rooted in the Greek 'oxys' meaning sharp or acid.

In the news

The article uses the term to describe a growing environmental trend where ocean regions are losing oxygen, which mirrors the mechanism that preserved the ancient shipwreck.

At the bottom of the Black Sea, below about 150 metres, the water contains no oxygen at all, and shipwrecks preserved in that dead zone include a 2,400-year-old Greek merchant vessel found in 2018 with its mast, rudder and rowing benches still intact on the

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