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It seems to me that the element called "oxygen" is not named after another element and that the element is most likely named by itself.

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Who named the element oxygen?

Antoine Lavoisier named oxygen in 1774.


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How do oxygen know about all of the atoms in another element oxygen?

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Is oxygen a molecule or an atom?

oxygen is an element on the Periodic Table of elements. This means that oxygen is an atom which could bond with another element covalently to form a molecule


Why is strontium oxide named what it is named?

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Is oxygen an element of nitrogenous base?

No, oxygen is not an element of a nitrogenous base. Nitrogenous bases are classified as adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which contain nitrogen atoms but no oxygen in the ring structure. Oxygen is found in other molecules like sugars and phosphates that make up DNA and RNA.