oxygen

Etymology
Borrowed from (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by ), from  +, referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) Molecular oxygen (O2), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
 * 3)  A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
 * 4)  An atom of this element.
 * 5)  A condition or environment in which something can thrive.
 * Silence is the oxygen of shame.
 * They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.
 * 1)  A condition or environment in which something can thrive.
 * Silence is the oxygen of shame.
 * They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.

Synonyms

 * when used as a packaging gas
 * when used as a packaging gas

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аҵәыҵәри
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German: Sauerstoff
 * Amharic: ኦክሲጅን
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: أكسجين
 * Aragonese: ocsichén
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: অম্লজান
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: مولدالحموضه
 * Roman:, müvəllidülhümuzə
 * Basque: oxigenoa
 * Bavarian: Sauastoff
 * Belarusian: кісларо́д
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton: oksigen
 * Bulgarian: кислоро́д
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: хүшэлтүрэгшэ
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: oksijen
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 氧
 * Hakka: 氧
 * Hokkien: 酸素, 氧
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: йӳҫлӗк
 * Cornish: oksyjen, oxyjen
 * Corsican: ossigenu
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: སྲོག་རླུང
 * Eastern Mari: шопештыш
 * Erzya: чапамо чачтый
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: àgbèyà
 * Farefare: mi'ige-walʋm
 * Faroese: súrevni, ilt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ossigjen
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჟანგბადი
 * German:, ,
 * Central Franconian: Sauerstoff
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: ilti
 * Guaraní: tatarapo
 * Gujarati: પ્રાણવાયુ
 * Haitian Creole: oksijèn
 * Hawaiian: ‘Okikene, hāola
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: kisloroda
 * Interlingua: oxygeno
 * Irish:, aer-beatha
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: oksigen, zat asam
 * Kalmyk: күчлтөр
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: oxygen
 * Kashubian: krziseń
 * Kazakh:, оттегі
 * Khmer: អុកស៊ីហ្សែន
 * Komi-Permyak: шöмувтыр
 * Komi-Zyrian: шомвачужысь
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: skuobeklis
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: oscigeno
 * Limburgish: zuurstof
 * Lingala: oksijɛ́ní
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: suerstoff
 * German Low German: Suerstoff
 * Luxembourgish: Sauerstoff
 * Macedonian: кислород
 * Malay:, zat pembakar
 * Malayalam:, , ,
 * Maltese: ossiġinu
 * Manx: ocsygien
 * Maori: hāora
 * Marathi: प्राणवायू
 * Moksha: шапам
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: níłchʼi yáʼátʼéehii
 * Newar: अक्सिजन
 * North Frisian: sörstuf
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk:, surstoff
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଅମ୍ଳଜାନ
 * Oromo:
 * Ossetian: туаггуыр
 * Papiamentu: zürstòf, oxigeno
 * Pashto: اکسيجن
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: muksichaq
 * Romagnol: usìgen
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: degounis
 * Sanskrit: अम्लकर
 * Santali: ᱚᱠᱥᱤᱡᱮᱱ
 * Scottish Gaelic: ogsaidean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кисео̀нӣк, кѝсӣк
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: kislik
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: swaskotriki
 * Sundanese: oksigén
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: umoyakuphila
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: உயிரியம்,, ஆக்ஸிஜன், ஆக்சிஜன்
 * Telugu:, ఆక్సిజను
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྲོག་འཛིན་རླུང lit. 'life-supporting air', སྲོག་རླུང, འཚོ་རླུང lit. 'life-air', འཚོ་དབུགས lit. 'life-breath'
 * Tsonga: moya-tenga
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: kislorod
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: ئوكسىگېن
 * Uzbek:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Venda: gesedungi
 * Veps: hapanik
 * Vietnamese:, (氧氣)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, ufelai
 * West Frisian: soerstof
 * Xhosa: umongomoya
 * Yiddish: זויערשטאָף
 * Yoruba: ọ́síjìn
 * Zulu: umoyampilo


 * Bulgarian: кислоро́д
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 氧氣
 * Hokkien: 氧氣, 酸素
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ingrian: kisloroda
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Slovak:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:, ఆక్సిజను
 * Ukrainian:


 * Bulgarian: кислоро́д
 * Danish: oxygenatom
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: happiatomi
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 산소원자(酸素原子)
 * Odia: ଅମ୍ଳଜାନ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Brazilian:
 * European:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:

Adjective

 * 1)  oxygenic

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Usage notes

 * The term is rarely used; it primarily appears on gas tubes and canisters for international standardization, as well as a safety precaution to minimize the risk of confusing  with.