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An oxidizer.

Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.

The technical name of oxygen. [R.]

Oxidizable.

To oxidize.

Oxidation.

Oxygenic.

A triangle having three acute angles.

Having acute angles. Barlow.

See Hæmacyanin.

See Hemoglobin.

Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas. Oxyhydrogen blowpipe. (Chem.) See Blowpipe. -- Oxyhydrogen microscope, a form of microscope arranged so as to use the light produced by burning lime or limestone under a current of oxyhydrogen gas.

A light produced by the incandescence of some substances, esp. lime, in the oxyhydrogen flame. Coal gas (producing the oxygas light), or the vapor of ether (oxyether light) or methylated spirit (oxyspirit light), may be substituted for hydrogen.

A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup. Sir T. Elyot.

Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.

A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride. Oxymuriate of lime, chloride of lime.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and muriatic acid, that is, hydrochloric acid. [Archaic.] Oxymuriatic acid, chlorine, formerly so called on the supposition that it was a compound of oxygen and muriatic acid. [Obs.]

See Betaine.

Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.