oxygen
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Henry Blaxland KC told the court that "far from depriving Palestine Action of the oxygen of publicity" and "far from discrediting its brand", proscription of the group has had the opposite effect.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
All four of the collider's major research collaborations, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, have now reported signs that this primordial form of matter can emerge when oxygen and neon nuclei collide.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
He was airlifted to hospital where he underwent four surgeries, but despite several transfusions, oxygen was not flowing properly to the leg.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Ischemic heart disease occurs when reduced blood flow deprives the heart muscle of the oxygen it needs, often because arteries have narrowed or become blocked.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
“It’s made up of this many carbon molecules, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Developing such materials "requires understanding of what the surface does with the oxygens, and how it's structured," Gómez-Bombarelli says.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
Zeolites can trap copper, iron and other metals that can act as catalysts to replace methane's four hydrogen atoms with two oxygens.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2019
The oxygens were then free to link with iron, creating vast rust-colored deposits of iron oxide across our planet's surface.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2019
The mass spectrometer then works out how many carbons there are in the molecule, how many hydrogens, how many oxygens; and starts to build up the complete structure.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2015
There is even more sharing of oxygens between adjacent tetrahedra and hence fewer charge-balancing cations are needed for sheet silicate minerals.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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