Oxide is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 41 anagrams from letters in oxide (deiox).
1780-90; French (now oxyde), blend of oxygène and acide. See oxygen, acid
In general, then, an oxide is a compound of oxygen with another element.
Iron, for example, occurs largely in the form of the oxide Fe2O3.
If more hydrogen is admitted, some of the oxide will be reduced to metal.
It was claimed that in this way the presence of specks of oxide was avoided.
The zirconium alloy will react with water to produce hydrogen and oxide, but it also produces heat that has to be removed.
The oxide zones of many ore bodies are formed by these processes.
In storage, no self-polymerization of 1,2-butylene oxide has been detected.
It is composed of silica, alumina, carbonate of lime, magnesia and oxide of iron.
The oxide and the carbonate are probably products of surface weathering.
In the oxide zone, native mercury and the chloride, calomel, are formed.