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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various, often chemical molecules formed by the attachment of ozone to a double bond or triple bond in an organic compound as an intermediate in ozonolysis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance formerly supposed to contain as a constituent ozone or the specially active form of oxygen. The term is sometimes rather vaguely applied to a substance capable of producing ozone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry the
univalent anion , O3-, derived fromozone - noun chemistry any dark red
salt of this anion and ametal - noun chemistry any of a number of
explosive organic compounds containing a -O-O-O- group - noun chemistry any of a class of
heterocycles , containing twocarbon atoms (in positions 3 and 5) and threeoxygen atoms (in positions 1, 2 and 4) produced by the reaction of ozone with a carbon to carbondouble bond ; the 1,2,4-trioxolanes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a class of unstable chemical compounds resulting from the addition of ozone to a double bond in an unsaturated compound
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