Definitions for oxygen

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oxygen ox·y·gen

Spelling: [ok-si-juh n]

IPA: /ˈɒk sɪ dʒən/

Oxygen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in oxygen (egnoxy).

Definitions for oxygen

noun

1. a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature. It is the supporter of combustion in air and was the standard of atomic, combining, and molecular weights until 1961, when carbon 12 became the new standard. Symbol: O; atomic weight: 15.9994; atomic number: 8; density: 1.4290 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.

Origin of oxygen

1780-90; French oxygène, equivalent to oxy- oxy-¹ + -gène -gen

Examples for oxygen

However, what odds how you take your carbon and nitrogen and oxygen, as long as you DO get it?

oxygen levels will be decreased to accommodate fewer people.

The brain, also an organ, is particularly sensitive to the loss of oxygen.

"Gas-tight uniforms and our own supplies of oxygen," Blake supplemented.

We only know that it destroys the oxygen carrying power of living blood.

Neurons begin to die within four to six minutes of oxygen deprivation.

The only name which suggests itself is oxyzone, a combination of oxygen and ozone.

It reacts very readily with oxygen by burning smokelessly, with carbon dioxide and water as its byproducts.

Carbon will combine with hydrogen, but will drop it if it can get oxygen.

Their decay proceeded without a ready supply of oxygen, producing hydrocarbons like methane instead of oxygen-bearing molecules.