Oxide Definition

ŏksīd
oxides
noun
A binary compound of oxygen with some other element or with a radical.
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Other Word Forms of Oxide

Noun

Singular:
oxide
Plural:
oxides

Origin of Oxide

  • Archaic French oxide (now oxyde), from a blend of ox(ygene) and (ac)ide, coined by G. de Morveau and A. Lavoisier.

    From Wiktionary

  • French ox(ygène) oxygen oxygen (ac)ide acid (from Latin acidus tart, acid acid)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Oxide Sentence Examples

  • Half a century later, nitrous oxide came into use as an anesthetic.

  • As prepared by the reduction of the oxide it is a grey powder.

  • The metal is chiefly used, as the oxide, for colouring glass and porcelain.

  • When present in sufficient quantity the five last-named give enamel-white beads; lead oxide in excess gives a yellowish bead.

  • If silica be present, it gives the iron bead when heated with a little ferric oxide; if tin is present there is no change.

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Words Starting With

OOXOXI

Words Ending With

EDEIDE

Unscrambles

oxide

Words Starting With O and Ending With E

Starts With O & Ends With EStarts With OX & Ends With EStarts With O & Ends With DE

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With O5 Letter Words Ending With E