Oxide
noun
A chemical compound containing oxygen and another element.
Carbon dioxide is a type of oxide.
Often appears as...
- iron oxide
- carbon dioxide
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A chemical compound containing oxygen and another element.
Carbon dioxide is a type of oxide.
Often appears as...
- iron oxide
- carbon dioxide
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Term
Used in scientific contexts, especially chemistry. May not be familiar in everyday conversation.
In our chemistry class, we studied magnesium oxide's properties.
Pro Tip 2/3Understanding Compounds
Oxides are important compounds. Knowing them helps understand Earth's elements and reactions.
Oxygen forms an oxide with nearly every other element.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Oxides
Familiarize with common oxides such as rust (iron oxide) and breath (carbon dioxide).
Rust forms when iron oxide accumulates on metal surfaces.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Term
Used in scientific contexts, especially chemistry. May not be familiar in everyday conversation.
In our chemistry class, we studied magnesium oxide's properties.
Pro Tip 2/3Understanding Compounds
Oxides are important compounds. Knowing them helps understand Earth's elements and reactions.
Oxygen forms an oxide with nearly every other element.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Oxides
Familiarize with common oxides such as rust (iron oxide) and breath (carbon dioxide).
Rust forms when iron oxide accumulates on metal surfaces.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Term
Used in scientific contexts, especially chemistry. May not be familiar in everyday conversation.
In our chemistry class, we studied magnesium oxide's properties.
Pro Tip 2/3Understanding Compounds
Oxides are important compounds. Knowing them helps understand Earth's elements and reactions.
Oxygen forms an oxide with nearly every other element.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Oxides
Familiarize with common oxides such as rust (iron oxide) and breath (carbon dioxide).
Rust forms when iron oxide accumulates on metal surfaces.
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Jonathan Foley: The...
That's more than the emissions from all electricity and industry, or from all the world's planes, trains and automobiles. Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over-fertilizing. There is nothing we do that transforms the world more than agriculture. And there's nothing we do that is more crucial to our survival.
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Why do we have to wear...
on our tanning response, carcinogenesis, and aging. So, how does the sunscreen protect us from these rays? There are two basic types of sunscreen, physical and chemical blockers. Physical blockers, like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, reflect the Sun's rays by acting as a physical barrier.
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Which sunscreen should...
age your skin, and promote the development of potentially deadly skin cancer. Sunscreen protects your skin either physically by deflecting UV rays with an inorganic blocker like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, or chemically by using carbon-based compounds to absorb UV photons
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How to create cleaner...
and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.
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Whatever happened to...
Some plants added desulfurizing scrubbers to their smokestacks, or switched to low-sulfur coal and natural gas. Oxides of nitrogen emissions were also reduced with relatively low-cost technologies. These advances allowed the power sector to grow
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Nature is the...
and increase our ability to fight cancers and ward off viruses now and other researchers find that sunlight triggers the production of vitamin D and serotonin levels which can elevate our moods and nitric oxide which can boost
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Meet The Lightning Bug...
recently they found nitric oxide you get the flash but some fireflies have gone one step further taking their light show to a whole new level after all what's better than a bright light flashing seductively in the dark
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What’s in the air you...
Exhaust from fossil fuel-burning vehicles releases nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons which react to form ozone. And while some ozone in the upper atmosphere helps shield us from ultraviolet rays, on the ground,
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How the Mojave Desert...
Like Mars, it's dry, barren, and incredibly ornate. The carved canyons, long shadows, deep craters, and rich iron oxide soil create a landscape that extends for as far as the eye can see.
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Causes and Effects of...
changing the world around us the main cause is a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect gases in the atmosphere such as water vapor carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxide and
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
That's more than the emissions from all electricity and industry, or from all the world's planes, trains and automobiles. Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over-fertilizing. There is nothing we do that transforms the world more than agriculture. And there's nothing we do that is more crucial to our survival.
Video examples
Why do we have to wear...
on our tanning response, carcinogenesis, and aging. So, how does the sunscreen protect us from these rays? There are two basic types of sunscreen, physical and chemical blockers. Physical blockers, like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, reflect the Sun's rays by acting as a physical barrier.
Video examples
Which sunscreen should...
age your skin, and promote the development of potentially deadly skin cancer. Sunscreen protects your skin either physically by deflecting UV rays with an inorganic blocker like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, or chemically by using carbon-based compounds to absorb UV photons
Video examples
How to create cleaner...
and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.
Video examples
Whatever happened to...
Some plants added desulfurizing scrubbers to their smokestacks, or switched to low-sulfur coal and natural gas. Oxides of nitrogen emissions were also reduced with relatively low-cost technologies. These advances allowed the power sector to grow
Video examples
Nature is the...
and increase our ability to fight cancers and ward off viruses now and other researchers find that sunlight triggers the production of vitamin D and serotonin levels which can elevate our moods and nitric oxide which can boost
Video examples
Meet The Lightning Bug...
recently they found nitric oxide you get the flash but some fireflies have gone one step further taking their light show to a whole new level after all what's better than a bright light flashing seductively in the dark
Video examples
What’s in the air you...
Exhaust from fossil fuel-burning vehicles releases nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons which react to form ozone. And while some ozone in the upper atmosphere helps shield us from ultraviolet rays, on the ground,
Video examples
How the Mojave Desert...
Like Mars, it's dry, barren, and incredibly ornate. The carved canyons, long shadows, deep craters, and rich iron oxide soil create a landscape that extends for as far as the eye can see.
Video examples
Causes and Effects of...
changing the world around us the main cause is a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect gases in the atmosphere such as water vapor carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxide and
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Paul Stamets
American Scientist
Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer researchers.
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Ferid Murad
American Scientist
What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Cargo ships typically burn dirty fuel that releases pollutants like nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide, which can cause various cancers and childhood asthma for people living in port cities.
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Ferid Murad
American Scientist
I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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Michael Greger
American Author
Nitric oxide is a key biological messenger within the body. When released by the cells lining your arteries, it makes the walls of the arteries relax, allowing more blood to flow.
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Jamais Cascio
American Writer
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees.
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Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
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Michael Greger
American Author
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
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Ferid Murad
American Scientist
There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.
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Ferid Murad
American Scientist
Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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Paul Stamets
American Scientist
Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer researchers.
Quote examples
Ferid Murad
American Scientist
What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
Cargo ships typically burn dirty fuel that releases pollutants like nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide, which can cause various cancers and childhood asthma for people living in port cities.
Quote examples
Ferid Murad
American Scientist
I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
Quote examples
Michael Greger
American Author
Nitric oxide is a key biological messenger within the body. When released by the cells lining your arteries, it makes the walls of the arteries relax, allowing more blood to flow.
Quote examples
Jamais Cascio
American Writer
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to varying degrees.
Quote examples
Marie Curie
Polish Scientist
During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
Quote examples
Michael Greger
American Author
Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
Quote examples
Ferid Murad
American Scientist
There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.
Quote examples
Ferid Murad
American Scientist
Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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