dioxide

See also: Dioxide

English

Alternative forms

• dinoxide (archaic)

Etymology

From di- +‎ oxide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈɒksaɪd/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪɔksaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dioxide (countable and uncountable, plural dioxides)

1. (chemistry) Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule.

Derived terms

• americium dioxide
• berkelium dioxide
• calcium dioxide
• carbon dioxide
• carbon dioxide snow
• cerium dioxide
• chlorine dioxide
• chromium dioxide
• curium dioxide
• germanium dioxide
• hafnium dioxide
• hydrogen dioxide
• lead dioxide
• manganese dioxide
• nitrogen dioxide
• pentacarbon dioxide
• plumbic dioxide
• plutonium dioxide
• ruthenium dioxide
• selenium dioxide
• silicon dioxide
• sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxide
• tellurium dioxide
• tetracarbon dioxide
• thorium dioxide
• tin dioxide
• titanium dioxide
• tricarbon dioxide
• uranium dioxide
• vanadium dioxide
• zirconium dioxide

 

Descendants

• → Swahili: dioksidi

Translations

any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule

• Armenian: երկօքսիդ (erkōkʻsid)
• Catalan: diòxid (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二氧化物 (ji⁶ joeng⁵ faa³ mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 二氧化物 (zh) (èryǎnghuàwù)

• Dutch: dioxide (nl) n
• Esperanto: dioksido
• Estonian: dioksiid
• Finnish: dioksidi (fi)
• French: dioxyde (fr) m
• Georgian: ორჟანგი (oržangi)
• German: Dioxid (de) n
• Greek: διοξείδιο (el) n (dioxeídio)
• Hungarian: dioxid (hu)
• Ido: dioxido (io)
• Irish: dé-ocsaíd f
• Italian: diossido (it) m, biossido (it) m
• Japanese: 二酸化物 (にさんかぶつ, nisankabutsu)
• Korean: 이산화물 (isanhwamul)
• Latvian: dioksīds m
• Polish: dwutlenek (pl) m
• Portuguese: bióxido m
• Romanian: bioxid (ro) m, dioxid (ro) m
• Russian: диокси́д (ru) m (dioksíd), двуо́кись (ru) f (dvuókisʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ocsaid f
• Spanish: dióxido (es)
• Swahili: dioksidi
• Swedish: dioxid (sv) c

Dutch

Alternative forms

• dioxyde (before 1996)

Etymology

Borrowed as an internationalism. Equivalent to di- +‎ oxide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdi.ɔkˈsi.də/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: di‧oxi‧de
• Rhymes: -idə

Noun

dioxide n (plural dioxides or dioxiden)

1. dioxide

Derived terms

• koolstofdioxide
• zwaveldioxide

See also

• dizuurstof