Converse of object

• scavenge: Smoking Ginkgo's ability to scavenge free radicals means that it will make a substantial difference to the potential damage smoking may present.

• generate: Vitamin C also has antioxidant properties, defending against damaging free radicals generated during the inflammatory response, sepsis or stress.

• fight: As plants evolved, they developed antioxidants to fight free radicals, Heber says.

Modifies a noun

• departure: Musically this was a radical departure from the previous line-up.

• rethink: Food hygiene training in the UK: time for a radical rethink?

• transformation: In between these two landmark years German society underwent a radical transformation.

Adjective modifier

• free: Indeed, free radicals have an impact on all of our lives.

• harmful: These mechanisms involve special enzymes that turn the harmful radicals into innocuous water and oxygen.

• Islamic: Islamic radicals, like Hitler, cultivate support by nurturing grievances against others.

• left-wing: According to left-wing radicals, the collective equality of citizenship of the Nation-People provided the antidote to the selfish privileges of the private property-owners.

• dangerous: Scientists at the University of Ulster have found that unaccustomed, aerobic exercise releases dangerous free radicals.

• religious: He therefore fell out with political radicals such as the Levelers while retaining the support of most religious radicals.

Noun used with modifier

• hydroxyl: Produced by smoldering fires, carbon monoxide reduces concentrations of reactive atmospheric chemicals called hydroxyl radicals that remove methane from the air.

• methyl: It would be formed from combining two methyl radicals: H 3 C.

• oxygen: It is thought that oxygen radicals cause abnormalities in the developing retinal blood supply.