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Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, making up nearly 21% of the Earth's atmosphere. It accounts for nearly half of the mass of the Earth's crust and two thirds of the mass of the human body. Oxygen can be extracted from liquefied air through fractional distillation or produced through electrolysis of water or heating potassium chlorate. Oxygen is highly reactive and required by most living organisms and combustion processes.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the universe, making up nearly 21% of the Earth's atmosphere. It accounts for nearly half of the mass of the Earth's crust and two thirds of the mass of the human body. Oxygen can be extracted from liquefied air through fractional distillation or produced through electrolysis of water or heating potassium chlorate. Oxygen is highly reactive and required by most living organisms and combustion processes.

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OXYGEN

HISTOR DISCOVERE LIFE


Oxygen is the third most abundant
element in the universe and makes up
RS APPLICATION
The greatest commercial use of oxygen
nearly 21% of the earth's atmosphere. gas is in the steel industry. Large
Oxygen accounts for nearly half of the quantities are also used in the
mass of the earth's crust, two thirds of the manufacture of a wide range of chemicals
mass of the human body and nine tenths including nitric acid and hydrogen
of the mass of water. Large amounts of peroxide. It is also used to make
oxygen can be extracted from liquefied epoxyethane (ethylene oxide), used as
air through a process known as fractional antifreeze and to make polyester, and
distillation. Oxygen can also be produced
through the electrolysis of water or by
Joseph Priestley chloroethene, the precursor to PVC.
Oxygen gas is used for oxy-acetylene
heating potassium chlorate (KClO3). welding and cutting of metals. A growing
Oxygen is a highly reactive element and is use is in the treatment of sewage and of
capable of combining with most other effluent from industry.
elements. It is required by most living
organisms and for most forms of
combustion. Impurities in molten pig iron
are burned away with streams of high
pressure oxygen to produce steel. Oxygen
can also be combined with acetylene
(C2H2) to produce an extremely hot flame
used for welding. Liquid oxygen, when FACTS/TRIVIA
combined with liquid hydrogen, makes an
excellent rocket fuel. Ozone (O3) forms a Liquid and solid oxygen
thin, protective layer around the earth is pale blue. At lower
that shields the surface from the sun's Carl Wilhelm temperatures and
ultraviolet radiation. Oxygen is also a higher pressures,
component of hundreds of thousands of
organic compounds.
Scheele oxygen changes its
appearance from blue
monoclinic crystals to
orange, red, black, and
ELEMENTAL even a metallic
appearance. Oxygen
NUMBER supports
combustion. However,
it is not truly

PHYSICAL flammable! It is
considered an oxidizer.
It is a colorless, tasteless, odourless gaseous element that constitutes 21 percent Bubbles of pure oxygen

PROPERTIE
of the atmosphere and is found in water, in most rocks and minerals, and in
numerous organic compounds. It is capable of combining with all elements
don't burn. Oxygen is
paramagnetic, which
except the inert gases and is involved especially in combustion processes. means it is weakly
attracted to a magnet
but doesn't retain
permanent magnetism.

ELEMENTAL
DIAGRAM

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