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oxygen English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word oxygen once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning oxygen meaning

What does oxygen mean?

Definitions in simple English

oxygen Noun

— Oxygen is a chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8.

— Oxygen is a type of gas.

— An oxygen is an atom of the element oxygen.

oxygen

— noun a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

Synonyms oxygen synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as oxygen?

oxygen English » English

O

oxygenous

atomic number 8

oyster

oxygenium

oxygenic

oxygen gas

own up

own

air

Topics oxygen topics

What do people use oxygen to talk about?

Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Gas

• What types of gas are there?
  natural gas oxygen carbon dioxide ozone hydrogen nitrogen helium neon

Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with chemicals

• What are the names of specific chemicals?
  acetate alcohol amino ammonia arsenic asbestos bicarbonate butane camphor carbohydrate chloride chlorine cleaner cleanser colloidal creosote cyanide detergent diesel dioxide emulsion enamel ethane ethanol ether fluoride fluorite fuel gas gel helium hydrogen iodine leaven hydrocarbon hydrochloric gasohol gasoline glycerin kerosene lacquer latex lithium lubricant methane neon nitrogen nylon oil oxide oxygen ozone paraffin peroxide phosgene petrochemical petrol petrolatum petroleum polyester protein rayon resin rosin yeast silicate silicon sodium solution sol solvent spar sulfuric tallow tannin tartar thinner turpentine varnish vitriol water

Examples oxygen examples

How do I use oxygen in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The air we breathe consists of oxygen and nitrogen.

A water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur and selenium are nonmetals.

The atmosphere mostly consists of nitrogen and oxygen.

Water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.

Oxygen is needed for combustion.

You cannot burn anything without oxygen.

Lack of oxygen is fatal to most animals.

You can't live without oxygen.

Oxygen and hydrogen make water.

Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.

Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen.

Water can be decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen.

Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water.

Oxygen from the air dissolves in water.

Without oxygen, all animals would have disappeared long ago.

Water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen.

He died from lack of oxygen.

A molecule of water is made up of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.

Movie subtitles

They'll say you need an energy source, you need oxygen, you need water, you need carbon, you need organic compounds, you need amino acids, you need all this stuff.

And in the same way, without water, there's nothing to allow the atoms - the carbon and oxygen and trace elements - to form the molecules that would give rise to the chemistry of life.

Maybe they can get oxygen in some other way.

I need to give you some oxygen, my love.

Oxygen saturation?

Guedel, oxygen.

Oxygen away, Justin off the chest.

Pulse ox misreads carbon monoxide poisoning as a normal oxygen saturation.

Everybody clear. Oxygen away.

And if the red giant does not have enough mass to fuse carbon, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen builds up in the center, transforming into a dense white dwarf.

If we perform a procedure called a tracheotomy we'll be able to get oxygen directly into her windpipe.

Her oxygen levels are low.

The oxygen containers - the shot hit the oxygen containers -!

But from what we saw in the plans, it is equipped with an oxygen generator.

Your first order of business should be finding oxygen.

That's the oxygen generator.

Can you release that oxygen throughout the ship?

I'll be out of both oxygen and propellant pretty soon.

So I've used up all my oxygen and propellant, huh?

Well, since there's no convection current like the sea has, you're not gonna find any oxygen on a lake bottom.

And thus we see that the function of the respiratory system is to transmit oxygen into the bloodstream, which is called osmosis.

They'll replace our lost oxygen!

It's oxygen.

But actually, you postponed that by lowering the temperature and thus, decreasing my oxygen requirements.

Put another bottle of oxygen in.

Better get a new oxygen tank.

Withdraw the air because the nitrogen and oxygen in air. interferes with the desired light bands of the spectrum.

But the oxygen supply is only enough for the way back.

We've sent for some oxygen.

Oxygen is good for you, isn't it Doctor?

Consisting of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.

Oxygen all set?

We can get him some oxygen and help him breathe.

Leo, you have to breathe that oxygen.

Breathe that oxygen!

He's shutting off my oxygen!

I'll break out the oxygen helmets and pressure suits.

There seems to be plenty of oxygen out there.

Better breathe your oxygen, just in case.

News and current affairs

Solar energy enables plants to absorb carbon gas and thereby produce not only oxygen, but also matter that the animal kingdom uses for food - and that our machines can use for energy.

The dilemma is similar in all European parliamentary democracies which evolved to express some version of the left-right choice and which are now gasping for lack of oxygen.

Indeed, metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to order as oxygen is to breathing: little noticed until it becomes scarce, at which point its absence dominates all else.

Metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to political and economic order as oxygen is to breathing: little noticed until it begins to become scarce.

Unfortunately, Iraq is draining all the oxygen out of the policy process in Washington.

At the same time, social power, which provides the oxygen for democratic legitimacy, has been marginalized and disillusioned, and is increasingly turning away from the traditional transmission belts of politics.

Emerging markets and other developing countries will need oxygen in the form of credit lines and trade financing.

These elements perform crucial functions, such as transporting oxygen, nutrients, and immunoglobulins (which defend against infection), and regulating water content, temperature, and pH level.

In the early twentieth century, researchers began to examine hemoglobin - the protein responsible for carrying oxygen from the respiratory organs to the rest of the body - in red blood cells.

The longer this prevails, the more oxygen is sucked out of sectors that remain relatively healthy - and for three distinct reasons.

Like oxygen being sucked out of our metaphorical airplane in midflight, deleveraging destabilizes societies and undermines the traditional effectiveness of official policies.

They function somewhat like a battery, except that their fuel is constantly replenished, reacting electrochemically with the air's oxygen to make electricity to drive an electric motor.

In fact, the obsession with Syria's sectarian rivalries provides destabilizing external forces with the oxygen that their inflammatory rhetoric requires.

Inflicting excessive austerity on the southern European countries while limiting their exports by restricting effective demand in the north is like administering an overdose to a patient while withholding oxygen.

Our trajectory as a species is hardwired to this four-billion-year-old bio-geo-chemical system that has profoundly worked and reworked the planetary environment, all the way from bacteria to city planners, atmospheric oxygen to paper mills.