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This name, due to Lavoisier, means acid producer. He was mistaken in thinking that oxygen was present in all acids.

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Does Mars have oxyagen?

no. and you spelled oxygen wrong.


What is another name for condensed oxygen?

Liquid Oxygen


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The name oxygen was coined in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier,whose experiments with oxygen helped to discredit the then-popular phlogiston theory of combustion and corrosion. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen