oxygen
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
oxygen
The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas. - Hypernyms: chalcogen
- Molecular oxygen (O2), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
- (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
- (countable) An atom of this element.
- 2013, Spencer L. Seager, Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (page 479)
- Look first at any structure to see if there is a carbon with two oxygens attached. Hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals, and ketals are all alike in that regard.
- 2013, Spencer L. Seager, Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (page 479)
- sourstuff
- E948 when used as a packaging gas
- French: oxygène
- German: Sauerstoff, Oxygen, Oxygenium
- Italian: ossigeno
- Portuguese: oxigénio (Portugal), oxigênio (Brazil)
- Russian: кислоро́д
- Spanish: oxígeno
- German: Sauerstoff
- German: Sauerstoffatom
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