oxide
a compound in which oxygen is bonded to one or more electropositive atoms.
Origin of oxide
1- Also ox·id [ok-sid]. /ˈɒk sɪd/.
Other words from oxide
- ox·id·ic [ok-sid-ik], /ɒkˈsɪd ɪk/, adjective
Words Nearby oxide
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How to use oxide in a sentence
Nitrogen oxide gases produced by traffic are a powerful precursor to cities’ elevated ozone levels, which can damage the lungs and trigger respiratory ailments.
What the pandemic can teach us about ways to reduce air pollution | Carolyn Gramling | January 4, 2021 | Science NewsCurrent sachets use a few layers of plastic for strength and one of aluminum oxide, to provide a barrier against the liquid oozing out.
Graphene gets real: Meet the entrepreneurs bringing the wonder substance to market | David Meyer | December 13, 2020 | FortuneD’Arcy notes that one group has combined bricks with metal oxide nanoparticles to help filter pollution out of the air, and another has created bricks that can conduct electricity by incorporating electrodes made from carbon nanomaterials.
The researchers found that the peak drop occurred in April, when globally averaged CO2 emissions and nitrogen oxides fell by roughly 30 percent from baseline, mostly due to reduced driving.
Emissions dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic. The climate impact won’t last | Jonathan Lambert | August 7, 2020 | Science NewsThe pair then isolated two bacterial species that, when present together, generate manganese oxide.
Scientists stumbled across the first known manganese-fueled bacteria | Carolyn Beans | July 21, 2020 | Science News
Nitric oxide helps to promote the flow of oxygen, so it may improve your endurance and fight fatigue during your sweat session.
6 Healthy Foods to Fight the Flu, Beat Stress and More | DailyBurn | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCampbell is quoted saying “Nitrous oxide can explode on its own.”
Branson’s Galactic Obstacles: Tom Bower Puts a Damper on Virgin’s Space Flight Dreams | Clive Irving | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, gives one an exhilarating feeling while operating as an anesthetic.
Gina Gershon’s Trip to Heaven in the Dentist’s Chair | Gina Gershon | October 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTTragic 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.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerThe properties of ammoniacal solutions of silver oxide are in entire agreement with this conception.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. | Julius StieglitzIt is, in fact, on account of this property, that potassium oxide is decomposed by water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. | Julius StieglitzThe oxide, K2O, is decomposed by neutralizing hydrogen ions formed by the primary ionization of water.
The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. | Julius Stieglitz
British Dictionary definitions for oxide
/ (ˈɒksaɪd) /
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
Origin of oxide
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for oxide
[ ŏk′sīd′ ]
A compound of oxygen and another element or radical. Water (H2O) is an oxide.
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