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dioxide

[ dahy-ok-sahyd, -sid ]

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen, each of which is bonded directly to an atom of a second element, as manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , or nitrogen dioxide, NO 2 .


dioxide

/ daɪˈɒksaɪd /

noun

  1. any oxide containing two oxygen atoms per molecule, both of which are bonded to an atom of another element
  2. another name for a peroxide


dioxide

/ dī-ŏksīd /

  1. A compound containing two oxygen atoms per molecule.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dioxide1

First recorded in 1840–50; di- 1 + oxide

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Example Sentences

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

Other psychiatrists attempted to treat schizophrenia with carbon dioxide gas and artificially-induced comas.

The higher levels of carbon dioxide will induce something of a feeding frenzy for plants, at least for a while.

Grosvenor Place, which runs alongside the palace, has almost four times the maximum permissible amount of nitrogen dioxide.

“We are short of carbon dioxide for the needs of the plants,” Anderson said.

The primary purpose of respiration in all animals is the same—namely, to furnish oxygen and remove carbon dioxide (carbonic acid).

If we collect enough of these bubbles of gas to make a test, we find it to be carbon dioxide.

In previous experiments we have proved that carbon dioxide is given off by any living thing when oxidation occurs in the body.

The plants give off oxygen to the animals, and the animals give carbon dioxide to the plants.

The organs of respiration: the organs in which the blood receives oxygen and gives up carbon dioxide.

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