oxygen - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • dissolve: Higher amounts of dissolved oxygen are found in freshwater.
  • breathe: Each time I have visited the Pole I required a few hours breathing oxygen to get over the worst effects.
  • humidify: The use of humidified oxygen should be recorded in the notes and is not.
  • consume: Over a period of hours, the hand-warmer will consume the oxygen in the bag.

Adjective modifier

  • hyperbaric: Hyperbaric oxygen may be the better choice of preventive measures.
  • supplemental: Many patients will benefit from being given supplemental oxygen.
  • domiciliary: At present domiciliary oxygen is ordered for patients by general practitioners.
  • supplementary: The silver badge can be attempted without supplementary oxygen.
  • pure: The diver breathes pure oxygen through a mask, which improves exhalation of nitrogen.
  • molecular: Characterized by the presence of free or molecular oxygen; requiring such conditions to live.

Modifies a noun

  • saturation: In the study, a team of Belfast researchers measured oxygen saturation levels - the amount of oxygen carried in the blood.
  • atom: The extra oxygen atom is readily available to cause oxidation, making it an active compound useful for producing blond hair.
  • uptake: For example, when maximum oxygen uptake is mentioned, the issue of central versus peripheral limitation is fully addressed.
  • isotope: The power spectrum of oxygen isotope data from ocean sediment cores.
  • concentrator: The physical separation of gases from a mixture at room temperature is the underlying principle of oxygen concentrators.
  • cylinder: It is the only way to verify the contents of an oxygen cylinder.

Noun used with modifier

  • carbonyl: The camphor molecule has one polar atom ( a carbonyl oxygen ) and three methyl groups.
  • singlet: The red pigment in tomatoes, lycopene, works by quenching the highly damaging free radical singlet oxygen.
  • hydroxyl: For instance, it might place an hydroxyl oxygen of glucose at a favorable energy minimum in the Grid Map for aliphatic hydroxyl.
  • ether: However if the ether oxygen map was missing for some reason, then Program Group would use the water map by default instead.

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