| NOUN | substance | ozone | a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water |
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| Sounds | ow'zow.n | |
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| Rhymes | acetone ... zone: 126 rhymes with own... | |
| Meaning | A colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation). | |
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| Broader | gas | A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely |
| Substances | oxygen, O, atomic number 8 | A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas |
| Spanish | ozono | |
| Catalan | ozó | |
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