These data together show that indomethacin scavenges oxygen free radicals.
The level of reactive oxygen radicals is determined by flow cytometry.
Antioxidants protect the body from damage caused by harmful molecules called oxygen free radicals.
The free radical theory instead emphasizes damage caused by "oxygen free radicals".
These oxygen radicals then attack the structure of the polymer, leading to its degradation.
When a hydrocarbon is burned, a large number of different oxygen radicals are involved.
The ones of interest here are a highly reactive chemical species called free oxygen radicals.
So could malaria parasites be destroyed by assaulting them with free oxygen radicals?
To confirm that it was due to free radical production he searched for a less complicated generator of oxygen radicals.
Also, the antioxidant constituents in honey help clean up oxygen free radicals.