Oxygen: Wanted
Most wanted criminal!
Wanted for
inhalation of human species,
melting metal from ore,
water treatment, as an oxidizer for rocket fuel and a number of other industrial,
chemical and scientific applications.
Impurities in molten pig iron are burned away with streams of high pressure oxygen to produce steel.
Oxygen can also be combined with acetylene (C2H2) to produce an extremely hot flame used for welding.
Liquid oxygen, when combined with liquid hydrogen, makes an excellent rocket fuel.
Ozone (O3) forms a thin, protective layer around the earth that shields the surface from the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
Aliases
Chemical symbol: O
other names: fire air
Description
- Colorless
- Atomic Number: 8
Atomic Mass: 15.9994 amu - Non-metal
- Room temperature: gas
Structure
First arresting officer
- Joseph Priestley and Carl Wilhelm Scheele
- Joseph Priestley:
8th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist who published over 150 works.
- born: March 24, 1733
- died: February 6, 1804
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele:
a Swedish Pomeranian pharmaceutical chemist. Isaac Asimov called him "hard-luck Scheele" because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit.He heated several compounds (including potassium nitrate, manganese oxide, and mercury oxide) and found out that they released a gas which was later named Oxygen.
- born: December 9,1742
- died: May 21, 1786
Report of first arrest
- Where: in 1774
- by Joseph Priestley in England and two years earlier, but unpublished, by Carl W. Scheele in Sweden.
Last Seen
- Group number:16
- Located: everywhere- beware!!
Known Associates
- compounds formed with oxygen
- sodium peroxide-sodium burned in oxygen
- superoxide- potassium and oxygen
- hydrogen peroxide-hydrogen and oxygen
- carbon dioxide
Warning Label
Citations
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- "The Periodic Table." Periodic Table of Elements and Chemistry. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.
- "Periodic Table and the Elements." Chem4Kids.com: Elements & Periodic Table. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.
- Http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table. N.p., n.d. Web.
- "EXPEDITION SCYLLIAS : CHASSEURS D'EPAVES !" EXPEDITION SCYLLIAS : CHASSEURS D'EPAVES ! N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2015.