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OXYGEN ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oxygen acid mean? 

OXYGEN ACID (noun)
  The noun OXYGEN ACID has 1 sense:

1. any acid that contains oxygenplay

  Familiarity information: OXYGEN ACID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OXYGEN ACID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any acid that contains oxygen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

oxyacid; oxygen acid

Hypernyms ("oxygen acid" is a kind of...):

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oxygen acid"):

hypophosphoric acid (a crystalline tetrabasic acid (H4P2O6))

hypophosphorous acid; orthophosphorous acid; phosphorous acid (a clear or yellow monobasic acid (H3PO2))

polyphosphoric acid (a series of oxyacids of phosphorus)

periodic acid (any acid of iodine that contains oxygen)

orthophosphoric acid; phosphoric acid (an acid used in fertilizers and soaps: H3PO4)

tungstic acid (an oxyacid of tungsten (often polymeric in nature) formed by neutralizing alkaline tungstate solutions)

vanadic acid; vanadium pentoxide (any of various oxyacids of vanadium; known mostly in the form of its salts)


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