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ozonic

  • a word derived from ozone.
    ozone
    noun
    a form of oxygen, O 3 , with a peculiar odor suggesting that of weak chlorine, produced when an electric spark or ultraviolet light is passed through air or oxygen. It is found in the atmosphere in minute quantities, especially after a thunderstorm, is a powerful oxidizing agent, and is thus biologically corrosive. In the upper atmosphere, it absorbs ultraviolet rays, thereby preventing them from reaching the surface of the earth. It is used for bleaching, sterilizing water, etc.

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“Twin Spines” infuses ozonic drum and bass with what sounds like wind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Winds from the ocean are strongly ozonic, and it is ascertained that plants growing on soil to which salt has been applied evolve more ozone than others.

From The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. by D. A. Compton

On less uproarious days one gets all along the downs the rich, ozonic odor of the deep sea for a fundamental delight.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard

I breathed in lungfuls of clear, dry, ozonic air, and I really believe it made me a little light-headed, it was so exhilarating, so champagnized with the invisible bubbles of life.

From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn

"This ozonic air will fumigate them," said Agatha Lord carelessly.

From Mary Louise by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum