oxygens
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pluralof oxygen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
oxygennouna 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. O; 15.9994; 8; density: 1.4290 grams/liter at 0°C and 760 millimeter pressure.
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"Those two oxygens greatly limit the window of opportunity that you have in terms of doing chemical transformations," Movassaghi says.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2025
Zeolites can trap copper, iron and other metals that can act as catalysts to replace methane's four hydrogen atoms with two oxygens.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2019
The oxygens were then free to link with iron, creating vast rust-colored deposits of iron oxide across our planet's surface.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2019
They are built with a three-dimensional framework of silica tetrahedra in which all four corner oxygens are shared with adjacent tetrahedra.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The mass spectrometer then works out how many carbons there are in the molecule, how many hydrogens, how many oxygens; and starts to build up the complete structure.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2015