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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French oxygène (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by Lavoisier), from Ancient Greek ???? (oxús, “sharp”) + ????? (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k's?j?n, IPA^(key): /??ks?d??n/

Noun

oxygen (countable and uncountable, plural oxygens)

2. 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.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

3. Molecular oxygen (O₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
4. (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
5. (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.

6. (figuratively) A condition or environment in which something can thrive.

   Silence is the oxygen of shame.

   They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.

Synonyms

• sourstuff
• E948 when used as a packaging gas

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ??????????? (aukhcigyang)

Translations

References

• Oxygen on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• ozone

Danish

Noun

oxygen n (singular definite oxygenet, not used in plural form)

1. oxygen

   Synonym: ilt

German

Adjective

oxygen

1. (chemistry) oxygenic

   Antonym: anoxygen

Declension

Related terms

• Oxygen

Swedish

Noun

oxygen n

1. (archaic, strictly sciences) oxygen

   Synonym: syre

English

Etymology

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? + -ite

Noun

tuite

1. (mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Tuite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Dutch

Verb

tuite

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tuiten

Anagrams

• uitte

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???t??/

Noun

tuite

1. genitive singular of tuit

Participle

tuite

1. Alternative form of tite (past participle of tit)

Verb

tuite

1. Alternative form of tite (present subjunctive analytic of tit)

Mutation

Latin

Participle

tuite

1. vocative masculine singular of tuitus