ozone
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See also: ozoné
Etymology
From German Ozon, coined 1840 by Christian Friedrich Schönbein, from Ancient Greek ὄζον (ózon), neuter participle of ὄζω (ózō, “I smell”), in reference to its pungent odour.
The “fresh air” sense is from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone.
Pronunciation
Noun
ozone (uncountable)
- (inorganic chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
- Hypernym: greenhouse gas
- 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 334:
- Lightning flashed again, the thunder came a second later. It rained harder. The smell of ozone was strong. You could feel the charge in the air.
- (British, informal) Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
- 1875, William Crookes, The Chemical News, page 99:
- A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ozone-baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.
- 2007, Robert Douglas, Tales of the Unexpected: Somewhere to Lay My Head, unnumbered page:
- It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone, seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.
Derived terms
Translations
O3
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Verb
ozone (third-person singular simple present ozones, present participle ozoning, simple past and past participle ozoned)
- (transitive) To treat with ozone.
- 1868, Medical and Surgical Reporter, volume 19, page 392:
- Whenever it exists, as it usually does, even where the tide water freshens at the ebb, it seems to have a purifying tendency, probably by ozoning the superincumbent atmosphere.
- 1997, Robert Sampson, Patricia Hughes, Breaking Out of Environmental Illness:
- I worked nonstop to make the house safe. Periodically I ozoned the first-floor bathroom, but it still made us sick.
Further reading
ozone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “ozone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Noun
ozone m (plural ozones)
- ozone (O3)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Persian: ازن (ozon)
Further reading
- “ozone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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