oxygen

See also: Oxygen

English

Chemical element
O
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Etymology

Borrowed from French oxygène (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by Lavoisier), from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp”) + γένος (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids.

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Pronunciation

• enPR: ŏk'sĭjən, IPA^(key): /ˈɒksɪdʒən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

oxygen (countable and uncountable, plural oxygens)

2. The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

3. Molecular oxygen (O₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
   • 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:

     Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light.

4. (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
5. (countable) An atom of this element.
   • 2013, Spencer L. Seager, ‎Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (page 479)

     Look first at any structure to see if there is a carbon with two oxygens attached. Hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals, and ketals are all alike in that regard.

Synonyms

• sourstuff
• E948 when used as a packaging gas

Derived terms

• dioxin
• dioxygen
• gox
• heliox
• liquid oxygen
• lox
• nitrox
• nox
• oxo-
• oxy-
• oxygen-16
• oxygen-17
• oxygen-18
• oxygen bar
• oxygen bottle
• oxygen cylinder
• oxygen debt
• oxygen deficit
• oxygen demand
• oxygen depletion
• oxygen difluoride
• oxygen fluoride
• oxygen gas
• oxygenise, oxygenize
• oxygen lance
• oxygenless
• oxygen mask
• oxygenous
• oxygen tent
• oxygen therapy
• oxygen thief
• singlet oxygen
• tetraoxygen
• triplet oxygen

 

Related terms

• BSCCO
• Entonox
• hydroxy-
• hydroxyl
• oxide
• oxo-, oxo
• oxygenase
• oxygenate
• oxygenation
• oxylith
• oxy-, oxy
• oxytocic
• YBCO

 

Descendants

• → Burmese: အောက်ဆီဂျင် (aukhcigyang)

Translations

chemical element

• Abkhaz: аҵәыҵәри (acʷʼəcʷʼri)
• Afrikaans: suurstof (af)
• Albanian: oksigjen (sq) m
• Alemannic German: Sauerstoff m
• Amharic: ኦክሲጅን (ʾoksiǧn)
• Arabic: أُكْسِجِين m (ʾoksižēn)
• Aragonese: ocsichén ?
• Armenian: թթվածին (hy) (tʻtʻvacin)
• Assamese: অম্লজান (amlajān)
• Asturian: oxíxenu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: oksigen (az)
• Basque: oxigenoa
• Bavarian: Sauastoff ?
• Belarusian: кісларо́д m (kislaród)
• Bengali: অম্লজান (omlojan)
• Breton: oksigen m
• Bulgarian: кислоро́д m (kisloród)
• Burmese: အောက်ဆီဂျင် (my) (aukhcigyang)
• Buryat: хүшэлтүрэгшэ (xüšeltüregše)
• Catalan: oxigen (ca) m
• Central Melanau: oksijen
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氧 (joeng⁵)

  Hakka: 氧 (yông, yòng)

  Mandarin: 氧 (zh) (yǎng)

  Min Nan: 酸素 (sng-sò͘, sàng-sò͘), 氧 (ióng)

• Chuvash: йӳҫлӗк (jüślĕk)
• Cornish: oksyjen m, oxyjen ?
• Corsican: ossigenu ?
• Czech: kyslík (cs) m
• Danish: ilt (da) c, oxygen (da) n
• Dutch: zuurstof (nl) f
• Eastern Mari:
• Erzya: чапамо чачтый (čapamo čačtij)
• Esperanto: oksigeno (eo)
• Estonian: hapnik (et)
• Ewe: àgbèyà
• Faroese: súrevni n, ilt n
• Finnish: happi (fi)
• French: oxygène (fr) m
• Friulian: ossigjen ?
• Galician: osíxeno (gl) m
• Georgian: ჟანგბადი (žangbadi)
• German: Sauerstoff (de) m, Oxygen (de) n, Oxygenium (de) n

  Central Franconian: Sauerstoff m

• Greek: οξυγόνο (el) n (oxygóno)
• Greenlandic: ilti
• Guaraní: tatarapo
• Gujarati: પ્રાણવાયુ ? (prāṇvāyu)
• Haitian Creole: oksijèn
• Hawaiian: ʻOkikene, hāola
• Hebrew: חַמְצָן (he) (khamtsan)
• Hindi: जारक (hi) ? (jārak), ऑक्सीजन (hi) ? (ŏksījan), प्राणवायु (hi) ? (prāṇvāyu), आक्सीजन (hi) m (āksījan)
• Hungarian: oxigén (hu), éleny, savító
• Icelandic: súrefni (is) ?
• Ido: oxo (io), oxigeno (io)
• Indonesian: oksigen (id), zat asam (id), zat pembakar (id)
• Interlingua: oxygeno
• Irish: ocsaigin (ga) f, aer-beatha m
• Italian: ossigeno (it) m
• Japanese: 酸素 (ja) (さんそ, sanso)
• Javanese: oksigen, zat asam
• Kalmyk: күчлтөр (küçltör)
• Kannada: ಆಮ್ಲಜನಕ (kn) (āmlajanaka)
• Kapampangan: oxygen
• Kashubian: krziseń m
• Kazakh: оттек (kk) (ottek), оттегі (ottegı)
• Khmer: អុកស៊ីហ្សែន (oksiizaen)
• Komi-Permyak: шöмувтыр (šömuvtyr)
• Komi-Zyrian: шомвачужысь (šomvaćužyś)
• Korean: 산소 (ko) (sanso) (酸素 (ko))
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: кычкылтек (ky) (kıckıltek)
• Lao: ອົກຊີແຊນ (lo) (ʼok sī sǣn)
• Latgalian: skuobeklis
• Latin: oxygenium (la) ?
• Latvian: skābeklis (lv) m
• Ligurian: oscigeno ?
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• Limburgish: zuurstof ?
• Lingala: oksijɛ́ní class 9a
• Lithuanian: deguonis (lt) m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: suerstoff ?

  German Low German: Suerstoff ?

• Luxembourgish: Sauerstoff ?
• Macedonian: кислород m (kislorod)
• Malay: oksigen, zat pembakar
• Malayalam: അമ്ലജനകം (ml) (amlajanakaṁ)
• Maltese: ossiġinu m
• Manx: ocsygien
• Maori: hāora
• Marathi: प्राणवायू ? (prāṇvāyū)
• Moksha: шапам (šapam)
• Mongolian: хүчилтөрөгч (mn) (xüčiltörögč)
• Navajo: níłchʼi yáʼátʼéehii
• Newar: अक्सिजन (aksijan)
• North Frisian: sörstuf ?
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oksygen (no) n, surstoff (no) n

  Nynorsk: oksygen (nn) n, surstoff n

• Occitan: oxigèn (oc) m
• Oriya: ଅମ୍ଳଜାନ (amḷajāna)
• Oromo: oxygen
• Ossetian: туаггуыр (twagg°yr)
• Papiamentu: zürstòf, oxigeno
• Pashto: اکسيجن m (oksiǰán)
• Persian: اکسیژن (fa) (oksižen)
• Polish: tlen (pl) m
• Portuguese: oxigénio (pt) m (Portugal), oxigênio (pt) m (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਆਕਸੀਜਨ (pa) ? (ākasījan)
• Quechua: muksichaq
• Romagnol: usìgen ?
• Romanian: oxigen (ro) n
• Russian: кислоро́д (ru) m (kisloród)
• Samogitian: degounis
• Sanskrit: अम्लकर m (amlakara)
• Scottish Gaelic: ogsaidean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кисео̀нӣк m, кѝсӣк m

  Roman: kiseònīk (sh) m, kìsīk (sh) m

• Sicilian: ossìgginu (scn) ?
• Sinhalese: අම්ලකර (si) ? (amlakara)
• Slovak: kyslík (sk) m
• Slovene: kisik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: kislik m

• Spanish: oxígeno (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: swaskotriki
• Sundanese: oksigén
• Swahili: oksijeni (sw) class 9
• Swazi: umoyakuphila
• Swedish: syre (sv) n, oxygen (sv) n
• Tagalog: oksiheno (tl)
• Tajik: оксиген (tg) (oksigen)
• Tamil: உயிரியம் (uyiriyam)
• Telugu: ఆమ్లజని (te) (āmlajani)
• Thai: ออกซิเจน (th) (ɔ́k-sí-jeen)
• Tibetan: གསོ་རླུང་། (gso rlung)
• Tsonga: moya-tenga
• Turkish: oksijen (tr), müvellidülhumuza (tr)
• Turkmen: kislorod
• Ukrainian: ки́сень (uk) m (kýsenʹ)
• Urdu: آکسیجن (ur) (āksījan)
• Uyghur: ئوكسىگېن (oksigën)
• Uzbek: kislorod (uz)

  Cyrillic: кислород (uz) (kislorod)

• Venda: gesedungi
• Veps: hapanik
• Vietnamese: ôxy (vi), dưỡng khí (vi) (氧氣)
• Volapük: loxin (vo)
• Welsh: ocsigen (cy) m, ufelai m
• West Frisian: soerstof
• Xhosa: umongomoya
• Yiddish: זויערשטאָף m (zoyershtof)
• Yoruba: afëfë
• Zulu: umoyampilo

molecular oxygen

• Bulgarian: кислоро́д m (kisloród)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氧氣／氧气 (joeng⁵ hei³), 氧气 (joeng⁵ hei³)

  Mandarin: 氧氣／氧气 (zh) (yǎngqì), 氧气 (zh) (yǎngqì)

  Min Nan: 氧氣／氧气, 氧气 (ióng-khì), 酸素 (sng-sò͘, sàng-sò͘)

• Danish: oxygen (da), ilt (da) c
• Dutch: zuurstof (nl) f
• Finnish: happi (fi)
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• German: Sauerstoff (de) m
• Greek: οξυγόνο (el) n (oxygóno)
• Japanese: 酸素 (ja) (sanso)
• Latin: oxygenium (la) n
• Persian: اکسیژن (fa) (oksižen)
• Polish: tlen (pl) m
• Slovak: kyslík (sk) ?
• Swedish: syrgas (sv) c

atom of oxygen

• Bulgarian: кислоро́д m (kisloród)
• Danish: oxygenatom n
• Finnish: happiatomi
• German: Sauerstoffatom (de) n
• Greek: οξυγόνο (el) n (oxygóno)
• Japanese: 酸素 (ja) (sanso)
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• Korean: 산소 (ko) (酸素, sanso)
• Oriya: ଅମ୍ଳଜାନ (amḷajān)
• Persian: اکسیژن (fa) (oksižen)
• Polish: tlen (pl) m
• Swedish: syreatom (sv) c

References

• Oxygen on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• ozone

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Danish

Noun

oxygen n (singular definite oxygenet, not used in plural form)

1. oxygen

   Synonym: ilt

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German

Adjective

oxygen

1. (chemistry) oxygenic

   oxygene Photosynthese ― oxygenic photosynthesis

   Antonym: anoxygen

Related terms

• Oxygen