oxide

[ ok-sahyd, -sid ]

/ ˈɒk saɪd, -sɪd /

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noun Chemistry.

a compound in which oxygen is bonded to one or more electropositive atoms.

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Also ox·id

[ok-sid]. /ˈɒk sɪd/.

Origin of oxide

1780–90; <French (now oxyde), blend of oxygène and acide.See oxygen, acid

OTHER WORDS FROM oxide

ox·id·ic

[ok-sid-ik], /ɒkˈsɪd ɪk/, adjective

Words nearby oxide

oxidation potential, oxidation-reduction, oxidation state, oxidative phosphorylation, oxidative stress, oxide, oxidimetry, oxidize, oxidizer, oxidizing agent, oxidoreductase

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How to use oxide in a sentence

Nitrogen oxide gases produced by traffic are a powerful precursor to cities’ elevated ozone levels, which can damage the lungs and trigger respiratory ailments.
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Current sachets use a few layers of plastic for strength and one of aluminum oxide, to provide a barrier against the liquid oozing out.
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D’Arcy notes that one group has combined bricks with metal oxide nanoparticles to help filter pollution out of the air, and another has created bricks that can conduct electricity by incorporating electrodes made from carbon nanomaterials.
Scientists Found a Way to Turn Bricks Into Batteries|Edd Gent|August 17, 2020|Singularity Hub
The researchers found that the peak drop occurred in April, when globally averaged CO2 emissions and nitrogen oxides fell by roughly 30 percent from baseline, mostly due to reduced driving.
Emissions dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic. The climate impact won’t last|Jonathan Lambert|August 7, 2020|Science News

The pair then isolated two bacterial species that, when present together, generate manganese oxide.
Scientists stumbled across the first known manganese-fueled bacteria|Carolyn Beans|July 21, 2020|Science News
Nitric oxide helps to promote the flow of oxygen, so it may improve your endurance and fight fatigue during your sweat session.
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Campbell is quoted saying “Nitrous oxide can explode on its own.”
Branson’s Galactic Obstacles: Tom Bower Puts a Damper on Virgin’s Space Flight Dreams|Clive Irving|January 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, gives one an exhilarating feeling while operating as an anesthetic.
Gina Gershon’s Trip to Heaven in the Dentist’s Chair|Gina Gershon|October 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Tragic indeed are those whip-it rumors about Demi Moore, for the allure of nitrous oxide is hardly a mystery to me.
Demi Moore’s Poignant Fall|Tracy Quan|February 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The zirconium alloy will react with water to produce hydrogen and oxide, but it also produces heat that has to be removed.
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Reddish and yellowish sandy clay, coloured by oxide of iron, and used as pigments by the natives.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Blew in two faces & got good looking ore seamed with a black incrustation, oxide of something, but what could not determine.
Cabin Fever|B. M. Bower
The properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
It is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz
The oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2.|Julius Stieglitz

British Dictionary definitions for oxide

oxide

/ (ˈɒksaɪd) /

noun

any compound of oxygen with another element

any organic compound in which an oxygen atom is bound to two alkyl or aryl groups; an ether or epoxide

Word Origin for oxide

C18: from French, from ox (ygène) + (ac) ide; see oxygen, acid

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