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VOCABULARY
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OXYGEN
OXYGEN
What is it?
- Oxygen is a chemical element. It is a member of the chalcogengroup on the periodic tableand is a highly reactive nonmetaland oxiding agent.
- Is the 3rd most abundant element in the universo.
- Oxygen was discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joshep Priestley.
Characteristics:
- At standart temperatura and pressure, oxygen is a colorless, odorless tasteless gas.
- Oxygen is the most abundant element by mass in terrestrial biosphere, air, sea and land.
- around 0.9% of the mass of the Sun is oxygen.
Aplications:
- Medical
- Life support and recreational use
- Industrial
- Science
How we obtain it?
- Photosyntesis and respiration:
In nature, free oxygen is produced by the light-given splitting of wáter during oxygenic photosyntesis.
- Living organims:
The free oxygen partial pressure in the body of a living vertebrate organims is highest in the respiration system, and lowest in arterial system.
Properties:
- Atomic number: 8
- Valence: 2
- Oxidation state: -2
- Atomic mass: 15,9994
- Boiling point: -183
- Fusion point: -218,8
- Isotopes: 3 nuclear stable and 14 unestable
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