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oxygens

  • plural
    of oxygen.
    oxygen
    noun
    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. 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

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