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oxygen

[ok-si-juhn] / ˈɒk sɪ dʒən /


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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

One senior official ruffled feathers when he said the wildfires were out of human control and that oxygen in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia "also comes from our forests".

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

The higher oxygen levels must be affecting my perception.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

"Those two oxygens greatly limit the window of opportunity that you have in terms of doing chemical transformations," Movassaghi says.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2025

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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