Oxygenation may refer to:
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Oxygenation (environmental)
Hypoxia (''hypo'': 'below', ''oxia'': 'oxygenated') refers to low oxygen conditions. Hypoxia is problematic for air-breathing organisms, yet it is essential for many anaerobic organisms. Hypoxia applies to many situations, but usually refers t ...
, a measurement of dissolved oxygen concentration in soil or water
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Oxygen saturation (medicine)
Oxygen saturation is the fraction of oxygen-saturated haemoglobin relative to total haemoglobin (unsaturated + saturated) in the blood. The human body requires and regulates a very precise and specific balance of oxygen in the blood. Normal art ...
, The percent of hemoglobin saturated by oxygen, usually in arterial blood.
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Water oxygenation, the process of increasing the oxygen saturation of the water
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Great Oxygenation Event
The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) or Great Oxygenation Event, also called the Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Revolution, Oxygen Crisis or Oxygen Holocaust, was a time interval during the Earth's Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere and ...
, an ancient event that led to the rise of oxygen within our atmosphere
See also
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Oxygenase
An oxygenase is any enzyme that oxidizes a substrate by transferring the oxygen from molecular oxygen O2 (as in air) to it. The oxygenases form a class of oxidoreductases; their EC number is EC 1.13 or EC 1.14.
Structure
Most oxygenases contain ...
, an enzyme that oxidizes a substrate by transferring the oxygen from molecular oxygen O
2 (as in air) to it
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Oxidation
Redox ( , , reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change. Oxidation is the loss of electrons or an increase in the oxidation state, while reduction is ...
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