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What is oxygen's origin of name?

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Anonymous

∙ 15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Origin is Greek; oxys, meaning "sharp, sour," and gens, meaning "born, generated."

French chemist Antoine Lavoisier named the gas oxygène,literally meaning "acid producer" (From the Greek words above)

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