oxygen
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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
Despite several transfusions, oxygen was not flowing properly to the leg and a decision was reached that an amputation was necessary.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Athena’s lawyer, Davis, said he has reviewed medical records and there is no mention of Al-Hussaini being deprived of oxygen for 30 to 60 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The LHC carried out its first oxygen collisions in 2025.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
However they had gotten there, Spirit Lake was now their home, and their photosynthesis was creating oxygen as a waste product.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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
In pyroxene, silica tetrahedra are linked together in a single chain, where one oxygen ion from each tetrahedron is shared with the adjacent tetrahedron, hence there are fewer oxygens in the structure.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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