antozone

English

Etymology

From ant- (“anti-”) +‎ ozone, because it was apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

Noun

antozone (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry, archaic) hydrogen peroxide

Related terms

• anti-
• antiozonant
• anti-ozone/antiozone
• ozone

 

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antozone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• entozoan