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oxide
[ ok-sahyd, -sid ]
noun
- a compound in which oxygen is bonded to one or more electropositive atoms.
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
oxide
/ ŏk′sīd′ /
- A compound of oxygen and another element or radical. Water (H 2 O) is an oxide.
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Other Words From
- ox·id·ic [ok-, sid, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of oxide1
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Example Sentences
Nitric oxide helps to promote the flow of oxygen, so it may improve your endurance and fight fatigue during your sweat session.
Campbell is quoted saying “Nitrous oxide can explode on its own.”
Nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, gives one an exhilarating feeling while operating as an anesthetic.
Tragic indeed are those whip-it rumors about Demi Moore, for the allure of nitrous oxide is hardly a mystery to me.
The zirconium alloy will react with water to produce hydrogen and oxide, but it also produces heat that has to be removed.
Reddish and yellowish sandy clay, coloured by oxide of iron, and used as pigments by the natives.
Blew in two faces & got good looking ore seamed with a black incrustation, oxide of something, but what could not determine.
The properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
It is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.
The oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.
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