Oxygen-gas Definition

Oxygen-gas Sentence Examples

• The test for oxygen gas is that it relights a glowing splint.

• Upside down water filled burettes can be used to collect the oxygen gas.

• If, instead of using copper electrodes, we take plates of platinum, copper is still deposited on the cathode; but, instead of the anode dissolving, free sulphuric acid appears in the neighbouring solution, and oxygen gas is evolved at the surface of the platinum plate.

• Thus, with a dilute solution of sulphuric acid and platinum electrodes, hydrogen gas is evolved at the cathode, while, as the result of a secondary action on the anode, sulphuric acid is there re-formed, and oxygen gas evolved.