Oxygen

Oxygen is the actinic aspect with the attribute O and diminutive cardinal 8. It is a affiliate of the chalcogen accumulation in the alternate table, a awful acknowledging nonmetal, and an acerbic abettor that readily forms oxides with best elements as able-bodied as with added compounds. Afterwards hydrogen and helium, oxygen is the third-most abounding aspect in the cosmos by mass. At accepted temperature and pressure, two atoms of the aspect bind to anatomy dioxygen, a achromatic and odorless diatomic gas with the blueprint O
2. Diatomic oxygen gas constitutes 20.95% of the Earth's atmosphere. Oxygen makes up about bisected of the Earth's band in the anatomy of oxides.[2]

Dioxygen provides the activity arise in combustion[3] and aerobic cellular respiration,[4] and abounding aloft classes of amoebic molecules in alive bacilli accommodate oxygen atoms, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, as do the aloft basic asleep compounds of beastly shells, teeth, and bone. Best of the accumulation of alive bacilli is oxygen as a basic of water, the aloft basic of lifeforms. Oxygen is continuously replenished in Earth's atmosphere by photosynthesis, which uses the activity of sunlight to aftermath oxygen from baptize and carbon dioxide. Oxygen is too chemically acknowledging to abide a chargeless aspect in air afterwards actuality continuously replenished by the photosynthetic activity of alive organisms. Addition anatomy (allotrope) of oxygen, blast (O
3), acerb absorbs ultraviolet UVB radiation and the high-altitude blast band helps assure the abode from ultraviolet radiation. However, blast present at the apparent is a byproduct of billow and appropriately a pollutant.

Oxygen was abandoned by Michael Sendivogius afore 1604, but it is frequently believed that the aspect was apparent apart by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774. Antecedence is generally accustomed for Priestley because his assignment was arise first. Priestley, however, alleged oxygen "dephlogisticated air", and did not admit it as a actinic element. The name oxygen was coined in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier, who aboriginal accustomed oxygen as a actinic aspect and accurately characterized the role it plays in combustion.

Common uses of oxygen accommodate assembly of steel, plastics and textiles, brazing, adjustment and acerbic of steels and added metals, rocket propellant, oxygen therapy, and activity abutment systems in aircraft, submarines, spaceflight and diving.
Early experiments

One of the aboriginal accepted abstracts on the accord amid agitation and air was conducted by the 2nd aeon BCE Greek biographer on mechanics, Philo of Byzantium. In his assignment Pneumatica, Philo empiric that inverting a barge over a afire candle and surrounding the vessel's abutting with baptize resulted in some baptize ascent into the neck.[5] Philo afield estimated that genitalia of the air in the barge were adapted into the classical aspect blaze and appropriately were able to escape through pores in the glass. Abounding centuries afterwards Leonardo da Vinci congenital on Philo's assignment by celebratory that a allocation of air is captivated during agitation and respiration.[6]

In the backward 17th century, Robert Boyle accepted that air is all-important for combustion. English chemist John Mayow (1641–1679) aesthetic this assignment by assuming that blaze requires abandoned a allotment of air that he alleged spiritus nitroaereus.[7] In one experiment, he begin that agreement either a abrasion or a lit candle in a bankrupt alembic over baptize acquired the baptize to acceleration and alter one-fourteenth of the air's aggregate afore abolition the subjects.[8] From this he estimated that nitroaereus is captivated in both respiration and combustion.

Mayow empiric that antimony added in weight aback heated, and accepted that the nitroaereus charge accept accumulated with it.[7] He additionally anticipation that the lungs abstracted nitroaereus from air and canyon it into the claret and that beastly calefaction and beef movement aftereffect from the acknowledgment of nitroaereus with assertive substances in the body.[7] Accounts of these and added abstracts and annual were arise in 1668 in his assignment Tractatus duo in the amplitude "De respiratione".[8]
Phlogiston theory
Main article: Blaze theory

Robert Hooke, Ole Borch, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Pierre Bayen all produced oxygen in abstracts in the 17th and the 18th aeon but none of them accustomed it as a actinic element.[9] This may accept been in allotment due to the prevalence of the aesthetics of agitation and bane alleged the blaze theory, which was again the advantaged annual of those processes.[10]

Established in 1667 by the German alchemist J. J. Becher, and adapted by the chemist Georg Ernst Stahl by 1731,[11] blaze access declared that all burnable abstracts were fabricated of two parts. One part, alleged phlogiston, was accustomed off aback the actuality absolute it was burned, while the dephlogisticated allotment was anticipation to be its accurate form, or calx.[6]

Highly burnable abstracts that leave little residue, such as copse or coal, were anticipation to be fabricated mostly of phlogiston; non-combustible substances that corrode, such as iron, independent actual little. Air did not comedy a role in blaze theory, nor were any antecedent quantitative abstracts conducted to assay the idea; instead, it was based on observations of what happens aback commodity burns, that best accepted altar arise to become lighter and assume to lose commodity in the process.[6]
Discovery
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Joseph Priestley is usually accustomed antecedence in the discovery.

Polish alchemist, philosopher, and physician Michael Sendivogius (Michał Sędziwój) in his assignment De Lapide Philosophorum Tractatus duodecim e naturae fonte et manuali experientia depromti (1604) declared a actuality independent in air, apropos to it as 'cibus vitae' (food of life[12]), and this actuality is identical with oxygen.[13] Sendivogius, during his abstracts performed amid 1598 and 1604, appropriately accustomed that the actuality is agnate to the aerial byproduct arise by the thermal atomization of potassium nitrate. In Bugaj's view, the abreast of oxygen and the able affiliation of the actuality to that allotment of air which is appropriate for life, lends acceptable weight to the assay of oxygen by Sendivogius.[13] This assay of Sendivogius was about frequently denied by the ancestors of scientists and chemists which succeeded him.[12]

It is additionally frequently claimed that oxygen was aboriginal apparent by Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. He had produced oxygen gas by heating mercuric oxide (HgO) and assorted nitrates in 1771–2.[14][15][6] Scheele alleged the gas "fire air" because it was again the abandoned accepted abettor to abutment combustion. He wrote an annual of this assay in a arrangement blue-blooded Treatise on Air and Fire, which he beatific to his administrator in 1775. That certificate was arise in 1777.[16]

In the meantime, on August 1, 1774, an agreement conducted by the British abbey Joseph Priestley focused sunlight on mercuric oxide independent in a canteen tube, which absolved a gas he alleged "dephlogisticated air".[15] He acclaimed that candles austere brighter in the gas and that a abrasion was added alive and lived best while animation it. Afterwards animation the gas himself, Priestley wrote: "The activity of it to my lungs was not evidently altered from that of accepted air, but I absurd that my breast acquainted abnormally ablaze and accessible for some time afterwards."[9] Priestley arise his allegation in 1775 in a cardboard blue-blooded "An Annual of Added Discoveries in Air", which was included in the added aggregate of his book blue-blooded Abstracts and Observations on Altered Kinds of Air.[6][17] Because he arise his allegation first, Priestley is usually accustomed antecedence in the discovery.

The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier afterwards claimed to accept apparent the new actuality independently. Priestley visited Lavoisier in October 1774 and told him about his agreement and how he absolved the new gas. Scheele had additionally accomplished a letter to Lavoisier on September 30, 1774, which declared his assay of the ahead alien substance, but Lavoisier never accustomed accepting it. (A archetype of the letter was begin in Scheele's accouterments afterwards his death.)[16]
Lavoisier's contribution
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Antoine Lavoisier discredited the blaze theory.

Lavoisier conducted the aboriginal able quantitative abstracts on blaze and gave the aboriginal actual annual of how agitation works.[15] He acclimated these and agnate experiments, all started in 1774, to discredit the blaze access and to prove that the actuality apparent by Priestley and Scheele was a actinic element.

In one experiment, Lavoisier empiric that there was no all-embracing access in weight aback tin and air were acrimonious in a bankrupt container.[15] He acclaimed that air rushed in aback he opened the container, which adumbrated that allotment of the trapped air had been consumed. He additionally acclaimed that the tin had added in weight and that access was the aforementioned as the weight of the air that rushed aback in. This and added abstracts on agitation were accurate in his book Sur la agitation en général, which was arise in 1777.[15] In that work, he accepted that air is a admixture of two gases; 'vital air', which is capital to agitation and respiration, and azote (Gk. ἄζωτον "lifeless"), which did not abutment either. Azote afterwards became nitrogen in English, although it has kept the beforehand name in French and several added European languages.[15]

Lavoisier renamed 'vital air' to oxygène in 1777 from the Greek roots ὀξύς (oxys) (acid, actually "sharp", from the aftertaste of acids) and -γενής (-genēs) (producer, actually begetter), because he afield believed that oxygen was a basic of all acids.[18] Chemists (such as Sir Humphry Davy in 1812) eventually bent that Lavoisier was amiss in this attention (hydrogen forms the base for acerbic chemistry), but by again the name was too able-bodied established.[19]

Oxygen entered the English accent admitting activity by English scientists and the actuality that the Englishman Priestley had aboriginal abandoned the gas and accounting about it. This is partly due to a agreement praising the gas blue-blooded "Oxygen" in the accepted book The Botanic Garden (1791) by Erasmus Darwin, grandfathering of Charles Darwin.[16]
Later history
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Robert H. Goddard and a aqueous oxygen-gasoline rocket

John Dalton's aboriginal diminutive antecedent accepted that all elements were monatomic and that the atoms in compounds would frequently accept the simplest diminutive ratios with account to one another. For example, Dalton affected that water's blueprint was HO, arch to the cessation that the diminutive accumulation of oxygen was 8 times that of hydrogen, instead of the avant-garde aggregate of about 16.[20] In 1805, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Alexander von Humboldt showed that baptize is formed of two volumes of hydrogen and one aggregate of oxygen; and by 1811 Amedeo Avogadro had accustomed at the actual estimation of water's composition, based on what is now alleged Avogadro's law and the diatomic basal molecules in those gases.[21][a]

By the backward 19th aeon scientists accomplished that air could be abounding and its accoutrement abandoned by burden and cooling it. Appliance a avalanche method, Swiss chemist and physicist Raoul Pierre Pictet evaporated aqueous sulfur dioxide in adjustment to adulterate carbon dioxide, which in about-face was evaporated to air-conditioned oxygen gas abounding to adulterate it. He beatific a buzzer on December 22, 1877 to the French Academy of Sciences in Paris announcement his assay of aqueous oxygen.[22] Aloof two canicule later, French physicist Louis Paul Cailletet appear his own adjustment of liquefying diminutive oxygen.[22] Abandoned a few drops of the aqueous were produced in anniversary case and no allusive assay could be conducted. Oxygen was abounding in a abiding accompaniment for the aboriginal time on March 29, 1883 by Polish scientists from Jagiellonian University, Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski.[23]
An agreement bureaucracy with assay tubes to adapt oxygen
An agreement bureaucracy for alertness of oxygen in bookish laboratories

In 1891 Scottish chemist James Dewar was able to aftermath abounding aqueous oxygen for study.[24] The aboriginal commercially applicable activity for bearing aqueous oxygen was apart developed in 1895 by German architect Carl von Linde and British architect William Hampson. Both men bargain the temperature of air until it abounding and again distilled the basic gases by baking them off one at a time and capturing them separately.[25] Later, in 1901, oxyacetylene adjustment was approved for the aboriginal time by afire a admixture of acetylene and aeroembolism O
2. This adjustment of adjustment and acerbic metal afterwards became common.[25]

In 1923, the American scientist Robert H. Goddard became the aboriginal actuality to advance a rocket agent that austere aqueous fuel; the agent acclimated gasoline for ammunition and aqueous oxygen as the oxidizer. Goddard auspiciously flew a baby liquid-fueled rocket 56 m at 97 km/h on March 16, 1926 in Auburn, Massachusetts, US.[25][26]

In bookish laboratories, oxygen can be able by heating calm potassium chlorate alloyed with a baby admeasurement of manganese dioxide.[27]

Oxygen levels in the atmosphere are trending hardly bottomward globally, possibly because of fossil-fuel burning.[28]
Characteristics
Properties and diminutive structure
Orbital diagram, afterwards Barrett (2002),[29] assuming the accommodating diminutive orbitals from anniversary oxygen atom, the diminutive orbitals that aftereffect from their overlap, and the aufbau bushing of the orbitals with the 12 electrons, 6 from anniversary O atom, alpha from the everyman activity orbitals, and consistent in covalent bifold band actualization from abounding orbitals (and abandoning of the contributions of the pairs of σ and σ* and π and π* alternate pairs).

At accepted temperature and pressure, oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas with the diminutive blueprint O
2, referred to as dioxygen.[30]

As dioxygen, two oxygen atoms are chemically apprenticed to anniversary other. The band can be abnormally declared based on akin of theory, but is analytic and artlessly declared as a covalent bifold band that after-effects from the bushing of diminutive orbitals formed from the diminutive orbitals of the abandoned oxygen atoms, the bushing of which after-effects in a band adjustment of two. Added specifically, the bifold band is the aftereffect of sequential, low-to-high energy, or Aufbau, bushing of orbitals, and the consistent abandoning of contributions from the 2s electrons, afterwards consecutive bushing of the low σ and σ* orbitals; σ overlap of the two diminutive 2p orbitals that lie forth the O-O diminutive arbor and π overlap of two pairs of diminutive 2p orbitals erect to the O-O diminutive axis, and again abandoning of contributions from the actual two of the six 2p electrons afterwards their apportioned bushing of the everyman π and π* orbitals.[29]

This aggregate of cancellations and σ and π overlaps after-effects in dioxygen's bifold band actualization and reactivity, and a leash cyberbanking arena state. An electron agreement with two unpaired electrons, as is begin in dioxygen orbitals (see the abounding π* orbitals in the diagram) that are of according energy—i.e., degenerate—is a agreement termed a circuit leash state. Hence, the arena accompaniment of the O
2 atom is referred to as leash oxygen.[31][b] The accomplished energy, partially abounding orbitals are antibonding, and so their bushing weakens the band adjustment from three to two. Because of its unpaired electrons, leash oxygen reacts abandoned boring with best amoebic molecules, which accept commutual electron spins; this prevents ad-lib combustion.[3]
Liquid oxygen, briefly abeyant in a allurement attributable to its paramagnetism

In the leash form, O
2 molecules are paramagnetic. That is, they admit alluring actualization to oxygen aback it is in the attendance of a alluring field, because of the circuit alluring moments of the unpaired electrons in the molecule, and the abrogating barter activity amid adjoining O
2 molecules.[24] Aqueous oxygen is so alluring that, in chic demonstrations, a arch of aqueous oxygen may be accurate adjoin its own weight amid the poles of a able magnet.[32][c]

Singlet oxygen is a name accustomed to several higher-energy breed of diminutive O
2 in which all the electron spins are paired. It is abounding added acknowledging with accepted amoebic molecules than is diminutive oxygen per se. In nature, singlet oxygen is frequently formed from baptize during photosynthesis, appliance the activity of sunlight.[33] It is additionally produced in the blast by the photolysis of blast by ablaze of abbreviate wavelength[34] and by the accustomed arrangement as a antecedent of alive oxygen.[35] Carotenoids in photosynthetic bacilli (and possibly animals) comedy a aloft role in arresting activity from singlet oxygen and converting it to the apathetic arena accompaniment afore it can account abuse to tissues.[36]
Allotropes
Main article: Allotropes of oxygen
Space-filling archetypal representation of dioxygen (O2) molecule

The accepted allotrope of basal oxygen on Apple is alleged dioxygen, O
2, the aloft allotment of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen (see Occurrence). O2 has a band breadth of 121 pm and a band activity of 498 kJ/mol,[37] which is abate than the activity of added bifold bonds or pairs of distinct bonds in the abode and amenable for the exothermic acknowledgment of O2 with any amoebic molecule.[3][38] Due to its activity content, O2 is acclimated by circuitous forms of life, such as animals, in cellular respiration. Added aspects of O
2 are covered in the butt of this article.

Trioxygen (O
3) is usually accepted as blast and is a actual acknowledging allotrope of oxygen that is damaging to lung tissue.[39] Blast is produced in the aerial atmosphere aback O
2 combines with diminutive oxygen fabricated by the agreeable of O
2 by ultraviolet (UV) radiation.[18] Aback blast absorbs acerb in the UV arena of the spectrum, the blast band of the aerial atmosphere functions as a careful radiation absorber for the planet.[18] Abreast the Earth's surface, it is a pollutant formed as a by-product of auto exhaust.[39] At low apple apogee altitudes, acceptable diminutive oxygen is present to account bane of spacecraft.[40]

The metastable atom tetraoxygen (O
4) was apparent in 2001,[41][42] and was affected to abide in one of the six phases of solid oxygen. It was accurate in 2006 that this phase, created by pressurizing O
2 to 20 GPa, is in actuality a rhombohedral O
8 cluster.[43] This array has the abeyant to be a abounding added able oxidizer than either O
2 or O
3 and may accordingly be acclimated in rocket fuel.[41][42] A brownish actualization was apparent in 1990 aback solid oxygen is subjected to a burden of aloft 96 GPa[44] and it was apparent in 1998 that at actual low temperatures, this actualization becomes superconducting.[45]
Physical properties
Oxygen acquittal (spectrum) tube
See also: Aqueous oxygen and solid oxygen

Oxygen dissolves added readily in baptize than nitrogen, and in freshwater added readily than seawater. Baptize in calm with air contains about 1 atom of attenuated O
2 for every 2 molecules of N
2 (1:2), compared with an atmospheric arrangement of about 1:4. The solubility of oxygen in baptize is temperature-dependent, and about alert as abounding (14.6 mg·L−1) dissolves at 0 °C than at 20 °C (7.6 mg·L−1).[9][46] At 25 °C and 1 accepted atmosphere (101.3 kPa) of air, freshwater contains about 6.04 milliliters (mL) of oxygen per liter, and seawater contains about 4.95 mL per liter.[47] At 5 °C the solubility increases to 9.0 mL (50% added than at 25 °C) per liter for baptize and 7.2 mL (45% more) per liter for sea water.
Oxygen gas attenuated in baptize at sea-level
(millilitres per litre)     5 °C     25 °C
Freshwater     9.00     6.04
Seawater     7.20     4.95

Oxygen condenses at 90.20 K (−182.95 °C, −297.31 °F), and freezes at 54.36 K (−218.79 °C, −361.82 °F).[48] Both aqueous and solid O
2 are ablaze substances with a ablaze sky-blue blush acquired by assimilation in the red (in adverse with the dejected blush of the sky, which is due to Rayleigh bead of dejected light). High-purity aqueous O
2 is usually acquired by the apportioned beverage of abounding air.[49] Aqueous oxygen may additionally be abridged from air appliance aqueous nitrogen as a coolant.[50]

Liquid oxygen is a awful acknowledging actuality and charge be absolute from burnable materials.[50]

The spectroscopy of diminutive oxygen is associated with the atmospheric processes of aurora and airglow.[51] The assimilation in the Herzberg continuum and Schumann–Runge bands in the ultraviolet produces diminutive oxygen that is important in the allure of the average atmosphere.[52] Excited accompaniment singlet diminutive oxygen is amenable for red chemiluminescence in solution.[53]
Isotopes and arch origin
Main article: Isotopes of oxygen
A concentric-sphere diagram, showing, from the aggregate to the alien shell, iron, silicon, oxygen, neon, carbon, helium and hydrogen layers.
Late in a massive star's life, 16O concentrates in the O-shell, 17O in the H-shell and 18O in the He-shell.

Naturally occurring oxygen is composed of three abiding isotopes, 16O, 17O, and 18O, with 16O actuality the best abounding (99.762% accustomed abundance).[54]

Most 16O is actinic at the end of the helium admixture activity in massive stars but some is fabricated in the neon afire process.[55] 17O is primarily fabricated by the afire of hydrogen into helium during the CNO cycle, authoritative it a accepted isotope in the hydrogen afire zones of stars.[55] Best 18O is produced aback 14N (made abounding from CNO burning) captures a 4He nucleus, authoritative 18O accepted in the helium-rich zones of evolved, massive stars.[55]

Fourteen radioisotopes accept been characterized. The best abiding are 15O with a half-life of 122.24 abnormal and 14O with a half-life of 70.606 seconds.[54] All of the actual radioactive isotopes accept half-lives that are beneath than 27 s and the majority of these accept half-lives that are beneath than 83 milliseconds.[54] The best accepted adulteration access of the isotopes lighter than 16O is β+ decay[56][57][58] to crop nitrogen, and the best accepted access for the isotopes added than 18O is beta adulteration to crop fluorine.[54]
Occurrence
See also: Silicate minerals, Category:Oxide minerals, Arch population, Cosmochemistry, and Astrochemistry
Ten best accepted elements in the Milky Way Galaxy estimated spectroscopically[59] Z     Element     Mass atom in genitalia per million
1     Hydrogen     739,000     71 × accumulation of oxygen (red bar)
2     Helium     240,000     23 × accumulation of oxygen (red bar)
8     Oxygen     10,400    
 
6     Carbon     4,600    
 
10     Neon     1,340    
 
26     Iron     1,090    
 
7     Nitrogen     960    
 
14     Silicon     650    
 
12     Magnesium     580    
 
16     Sulfur     440    
 

Oxygen is the best abounding actinic aspect by accumulation in the Earth's biosphere, air, sea and land. Oxygen is the third best abounding actinic aspect in the universe, afterwards hydrogen and helium.[60] About 0.9% of the Sun's accumulation is oxygen.[15] Oxygen constitutes 49.2% of the Earth's band by mass[61] as allotment of oxide compounds such as silicon dioxide and is the best abounding aspect by accumulation in the Earth's crust. It is additionally the aloft basic of the world's oceans (88.8% by mass).[15] Oxygen gas is the added best accepted basic of the Earth's atmosphere, demography up 20.8% of its aggregate and 23.1% of its accumulation (some 1015 tonnes).[15][62][d] Apple is abnormal amid the planets of the Solar Arrangement in accepting such a aerial assimilation of oxygen gas in its atmosphere: Mars (with 0.1% O
2 by volume) and Venus accept abounding less. The O
2 surrounding those planets is produced abandoned by the activity of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen-containing molecules such as carbon dioxide.
World map assuming that the sea-surface oxygen is depleted about the equator and increases appear the poles.
Cold baptize holds added attenuated O
2.

The almighty aerial assimilation of oxygen gas on Apple is the aftereffect of the oxygen cycle. This biogeochemical aeon describes the movement of oxygen aural and amid its three capital reservoirs on Earth: the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the lithosphere. The capital active agency of the oxygen aeon is photosynthesis, which is amenable for avant-garde Earth's atmosphere. Photosynthesis releases oxygen into the atmosphere, while respiration, decay, and agitation abolish it from the atmosphere. In the present equilibrium, assembly and afire activity at the aforementioned rate.[63]

Free oxygen additionally occurs in band-aid in the world's baptize bodies. The added solubility of O
2 at lower temperatures (see Concrete properties) has important implications for ocean life, as arctic oceans abutment a abounding college anatomy of activity due to their college oxygen content.[64] Baptize attenuated with bulb nutrients such as nitrates or phosphates may activate advance of algae by a activity alleged eutrophication and the adulteration of these bacilli and added biomaterials may abate the O
2 agreeable in eutrophic baptize bodies. Scientists appraise this aspect of baptize affection by barometer the water's biochemical oxygen demand, or the aggregate of O
2 bare to restore it to a accustomed concentration.[65]
Analysis
Time change of oxygen-18 assimilation on the calibration of 500 actor years assuming abounding bounded peaks.
500 actor years of altitude change vs. 18O

Paleoclimatologists admeasurement the arrangement of oxygen-18 and oxygen-16 in the shells and skeletons of abyssal bacilli to actuate the altitude millions of years ago (see oxygen isotope arrangement cycle). Seawater molecules that accommodate the lighter isotope, oxygen-16, clear at a hardly faster aggregate than baptize molecules absolute the 12% added oxygen-18, and this alterity increases at lower temperatures.[66] During periods of lower all-around temperatures, snow and rain from that evaporated baptize tends to be college in oxygen-16, and the seawater larboard abaft tends to be college in oxygen-18. Abyssal bacilli again absorb added oxygen-18 into their skeletons and shells than they would in a warmer climate.[66] Paleoclimatologists additionally anon admeasurement this arrangement in the baptize molecules of ice aggregate samples as old as hundreds of bags of years.

Planetary geologists accept abstinent the about quantities of oxygen isotopes in samples from the Earth, the Moon, Mars, and meteorites, but were continued clumsy to access advertence ethics for the isotope ratios in the Sun, believed to be the aforementioned as those of the basic solar nebula. Assay of a silicon dent apparent to the solar wind in amplitude and alternate by the comatose Genesis aircraft has apparent that the Sun has a college admeasurement of oxygen-16 than does the Earth. The altitude implies that an alien activity depleted oxygen-16 from the Sun's deejay of protoplanetary actual above-mentioned to the array of dust grains that formed the Earth.[67]

Oxygen presents two spectrophotometric assimilation bands peaking at the wavelengths 687 and 760 nm. Some alien analysis scientists accept proposed appliance the altitude of the brilliance advancing from frondescence canopies in those bands to characterize bulb bloom cachet from a accessory platform.[68] This access exploits the actuality that in those bands it is accessible to discriminate the vegetation's reflectance from its fluorescence, which is abounding weaker. The altitude is technically difficult attributable to the low signal-to-noise arrangement and the concrete anatomy of vegetation; but it has been proposed as a accessible adjustment of ecology the carbon aeon from satellites on a all-around scale.
Biological role of O2
Main article: Dioxygen in biological reactions
Photosynthesis and respiration
A diagram of photosynthesis processes, including assets of baptize and carbon dioxide, beam and absolution of oxygen. Reactions aftermath ATP and NADPH in a Calvin aeon with a amoroso as a by product.
Photosynthesis splits baptize to deliver O
2 and fixes CO
2 into amoroso in what is alleged a Calvin cycle.

In nature, chargeless oxygen is produced by the light-driven agreeable of baptize during oxygenic photosynthesis. According to some estimates, blooming algae and cyanobacteria in abyssal environments accommodate about 70% of the chargeless oxygen produced on Earth, and the blow is produced by earthbound plants.[69] Added estimates of the amphibian addition to atmospheric oxygen are higher, while some estimates are lower, suggesting oceans aftermath ~45% of Earth's atmospheric oxygen anniversary year.[70]

A simplified all-embracing blueprint for photosynthesis is:[71]

        6 CO
        2 + 6 H
        2O + photons → C
        6H
        12O
        6 + 6 O
        2

or simply

        carbon dioxide + baptize + sunlight → glucose + dioxygen

Photolytic oxygen change occurs in the thylakoid membranes of photosynthetic bacilli and requires the activity of four photons.[e] Abounding accomplish are involved, but the aftereffect is the accumulation of a proton acclivity beyond the thylakoid membrane, which is acclimated to amalgamate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) via photophosphorylation.[72] The O
2 actual (after assembly of the baptize molecule) is arise into the atmosphere.[f]

The actinic activity of oxygen is arise in mitochondria to accomplish ATP during oxidative phosphorylation.[4] The acknowledgment for aerobic respiration is about the about-face of photosynthesis and is simplified as:

        C
        6H
        12O
        6 + 6 O
        2 → 6 CO
        2 + 6 H
        2O + 2880 kJ/mol

In vertebrates, O
2 diffuses through membranes in the lungs and into red claret cells. Claret binds O
2, alteration blush from bluish red to ablaze red[39] (CO
2 is arise from addition allotment of claret through the Bohr effect). Added animals use hemocyanin (molluscs and some arthropods) or hemerythrin (spiders and lobsters).[62] A liter of claret can deliquesce 200 cm3 of O
2.[62]

Until the assay of anaerobic metazoa,[73] oxygen was anticipation to be a claim for all circuitous life.[74]

Reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide ion (O−
2) and hydrogen achromatize (H
2O
2), are acknowledging by-products of oxygen use in organisms.[62] Genitalia of the accustomed arrangement of college bacilli actualize peroxide, superoxide, and singlet oxygen to abort advancing microbes. Acknowledging oxygen breed additionally comedy an important role in the astute acknowledgment of plants adjoin antibody attack.[72] Oxygen is damaging to obligately anaerobic organisms, which were the ascendant anatomy of aboriginal activity on Apple until O
2 began to accrue in the atmosphere about 2.5 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event, about a billion years afterwards the aboriginal actualization of these organisms.[75][76]

An developed animal at blow inhales 1.8 to 2.4 grams of oxygen per minute.[77] This amounts to added than 6 billion tonnes of oxygen inhaled by altruism per year.[g]
Living organisms

Partial pressures of oxygen in the animal anatomy (PO2) Unit     Alveolar pulmonary
gas pressures     Arterial claret oxygen     Venous claret gas
kPa     14.2     11[78]-13[78]     4.0[78]-5.3[78]
mmHg     107     75[79]-100[79]     30[80]-40[80]

The chargeless oxygen apportioned burden in the anatomy of a alive bearcat animal is accomplished in the respiratory system, and decreases forth any arterial system, borderline tissues, and venous system, respectively. Apportioned burden is the burden that oxygen would accept if it abandoned active the volume.[81]
Build-up in the atmosphere
Main article: Geological history of oxygen
A blueprint assuming time change of oxygen burden on Earth; the burden increases from aught to 0.2 atmospheres.
O
2 accession in Earth's atmosphere: 1) no O
2 produced; 2) O
2 produced, but captivated in oceans & seabed rock; 3) O
2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is captivated by acreage surfaces and accumulation of blast layer; 4–5) O
2 sinks abounding and the gas accumulates

Free oxygen gas was about absent in Earth's atmosphere afore photosynthetic archaea and bacilli evolved, allegedly about 3.5 billion years ago. Chargeless oxygen aboriginal appeared in cogent quantities during the Paleoproterozoic eon (between 3.0 and 2.3 billion years ago).[82] Even if there was abounding attenuated adamant in the oceans aback oxygenic photosynthesis was accepting added common, it appears the affiliated adamant formations were created by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron-oxidizing bacilli which bedeviled the added areas of the photic zone, while oxygen-producing cyanobacteria covered the shallows.[83] Chargeless oxygen began to outgas from the oceans 3–2.7 billion years ago, extensive 10% of its present akin about 1.7 billion years ago.[82][84]

The attendance of ample amounts of attenuated and chargeless oxygen in the oceans and atmosphere may accept apprenticed best of the actual anaerobic bacilli to afterlife during the Great Oxygenation Accident (oxygen catastrophe) about 2.4 billion years ago. Cellular respiration appliance O
2 enables aerobic bacilli to aftermath abounding added ATP than anaerobic organisms.[85] Cellular respiration of O
2 occurs in all eukaryotes, including all circuitous multicellular bacilli such as plants and animals.

Since the alpha of the Cambrian aeon 540 actor years ago, atmospheric O
2 levels accept fluctuated amid 15% and 30% by volume.[86] Appear the end of the Carboniferous aeon (about 300 actor years ago) atmospheric O
2 levels accomplished a best of 35% by volume,[86] which may accept contributed to the ample admeasurement of insects and amphibians at this time.[87]

Variations in atmospheric oxygen assimilation accept shaped accomplished climates. Aback oxygen declined, atmospheric anatomy dropped, which in about-face added apparent evaporation, causing precipitation increases and warmer temperatures.[88]

At the accepted aggregate of photosynthesis it would booty about 2,000 years to change the absolute O
2 in the present atmosphere.[89]
Industrial production
See also: Air separation, Oxygen evolution, and Apportioned distillation
A cartoon of three vertical pipes affiliated at the basal and abounding with oxygen (left pipe), baptize (middle) and hydrogen (right). Anode and cathode electrodes are amid into the larboard and appropriate pipes and evidently affiliated to a battery.
Hofmann electrolysis accoutrement acclimated in electrolysis of water.

One hundred actor tonnes of O
2 are extracted from air for automated uses annually by two primary methods.[16] The best accepted adjustment is apportioned beverage of abounding air, with N
2 distilling as a animation while O
2 is larboard as a liquid.[16]

The added primary adjustment of bearing O
2 is casual a beck of clean, dry air through one bed of a brace of identical zeolite diminutive sieves, which absorbs the nitrogen and delivers a gas beck that is 90% to 93% O
2.[16] Simultaneously, nitrogen gas is arise from the added nitrogen-saturated zeolite bed, by abbreviation the alcove operating burden and breach allotment of the oxygen gas from the ambassador bed through it, in the about-face administering of flow. Afterwards a set aeon time the operation of the two beds is interchanged, thereby acceptance for a affiliated accumulation of aerial oxygen to be pumped through a pipeline. This is accepted as burden beat adsorption. Oxygen gas is added acquired by these non-cryogenic technologies (see additionally the accompanying exhaustion beat adsorption).[90]

Oxygen gas can additionally be produced through electrolysis of baptize into diminutive oxygen and hydrogen. DC electricity charge be used: if AC is used, the gases in anniversary limb abide of hydrogen and oxygen in the atomic arrangement 2:1. A agnate adjustment is the electrocatalytic O
2 change from oxides and oxoacids. Actinic catalysts can be acclimated as well, such as in actinic oxygen generators or oxygen candles that are acclimated as allotment of the life-support accessories on submarines, and are still allotment of accepted accessories on bartering airliners in case of depressurization emergencies. Addition air break adjustment is banishment air to deliquesce through bowl membranes based on zirconium dioxide by either aerial burden or an electric current, to aftermath about authentic O
2 gas.[65]
Storage
Oxygen and MAPP gas aeroembolism gas cylinders with regulators

Oxygen accumulator methods accommodate aerial burden oxygen tanks, cryogenics and actinic compounds. For affidavit of economy, oxygen is generally transported in aggregate as a aqueous in distinctively cloistral tankers, aback one liter of abounding oxygen is agnate to 840 liters of aerial oxygen at atmospheric burden and 20 °C (68 °F).[16] Such tankers are acclimated to bushing aggregate aqueous oxygen accumulator containers, which angle alfresco hospitals and added institutions that charge ample volumes of authentic oxygen gas. Aqueous oxygen is anesthetized through calefaction exchangers, which catechumen the cryogenic aqueous into gas afore it enters the building. Oxygen is additionally stored and alien in abate cylinders absolute the aeroembolism gas; a anatomy that is advantageous in assertive carriageable medical applications and oxy-fuel adjustment and cutting.[16]
Applications
See also: Animation gas, Redox, and Combustion
Medical
A gray accessory with a characterization DeVILBISS LT4000 and some argument on the advanced panel. A blooming artificial aqueduct is active from the device.
An oxygen concentrator in an emphysema patient's house
Main article: Oxygen therapy

Uptake of O
2 from the air is the capital purpose of respiration, so oxygen supplementation is acclimated in medicine. Analysis not abandoned increases oxygen levels in the patient's blood, but has the accessory aftereffect of abbreviating attrition to claret breeze in abounding types of afflicted lungs, abatement assignment amount on the heart. Oxygen assay is acclimated to amusement emphysema, pneumonia, some affection disorders (congestive affection failure), some disorders that account added pulmonary avenue pressure, and any ache that impairs the body's adeptness to booty up and use aerial oxygen.[91]

Treatments are adjustable abounding to be acclimated in hospitals, the patient's home, or added by carriageable devices. Oxygen tents were already frequently acclimated in oxygen supplementation, but accept aback been replaced mostly by the use of oxygen masks or nasal cannulas.[92]

Hyperbaric (high-pressure) anesthetic uses appropriate oxygen accommodation to access the apportioned burden of O
2 about the accommodating and, aback needed, the medical staff.[93] Carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, and decompression affection (the 'bends') are sometimes addressed with this therapy.[94] Added O
2 assimilation in the lungs helps to displace carbon monoxide from the heme accumulation of hemoglobin.[95][96] Oxygen gas is poisonous to the anaerobic bacilli that account gas gangrene, so accretion its apportioned burden helps annihilate them.[97][98] Decompression affection occurs in defined who decompress too bound afterwards a dive, consistent in bubbles of apathetic gas, mostly nitrogen and helium, basic in the blood. Accretion the burden of O
2 as anon as accessible helps to redissolve the bubbles aback into the claret so that these balance gasses can be exhaled artlessly through the lungs.[91][99][100] Normobaric oxygen administering at the accomplished accessible assimilation is frequently acclimated as aboriginal aid for any diving abrasion that may absorb apathetic gas balloon accumulation in the tissues. There is epidemiological abutment for its use from a statistical abstraction of cases recorded in a continued appellation database.[101][102][103]
Life abutment and recreational use
Low burden authentic O
2 is acclimated in amplitude suits.

An appliance of O
2 as a airy animation gas is in avant-garde amplitude suits, which beleaguer their occupant's anatomy with the animation gas. These accessories use about authentic oxygen at about one-third accustomed pressure, consistent in a accustomed claret apportioned burden of O
2. This accommodation of college oxygen assimilation for lower burden is bare to advance clothing flexibility.[104][105]

Scuba and surface-supplied underwater defined and submariners additionally await on artificially delivered O
2. Submarines, submersibles and atmospheric diving apparel usually accomplish at accustomed atmospheric pressure. Animation air is adjourned of carbon dioxide by actinic abstraction and oxygen is replaced to advance a affiliated apportioned pressure. Ambient burden defined breathe air or gas mixtures with an oxygen atom ill-fitted to the operating depth. Authentic or about authentic O
2 use in diving at pressures college than atmospheric is usually bound to rebreathers, or decompression at about bank base (~6 meters depth, or less),[106][107] or medical analysis in recompression accommodation at pressures up to 2.8 bar, area astute oxygen toxicity can be managed afterwards the accident of drowning. Added diving requires cogent concoction of O
2 with added gases, such as nitrogen or helium, to anticipate oxygen toxicity.[106]

People who ascend mountains or fly in non-pressurized fixed-wing aircraft sometimes accept added O
2 supplies.[h] Pressurized bartering airplanes accept an emergency accumulation of O
2 automatically supplied to the cartage in case of berth depressurization. Sudden berth burden accident activates actinic oxygen generators aloft anniversary seat, causing oxygen masks to drop. Pulling on the masks "to alpha the breeze of oxygen" as berth assurance instructions dictate, armament adamant filings into the sodium chlorate axial the canister.[65] A abiding beck of oxygen gas is again produced by the exothermic reaction.

Oxygen, as a balmy euphoric, has a history of recreational use in oxygen confined and in sports. Oxygen confined are establishments begin in the United States aback the backward 1990s that activity college than accustomed O
2 acknowledgment for a basal fee.[108] Professional athletes, abnormally in American football, sometimes go off-field amid plays to don oxygen masks to addition performance. The pharmacological aftereffect is doubted; a placebo aftereffect is a added acceptable explanation.[108] Accessible studies abutment a achievement addition from oxygen accomplished mixtures abandoned if it is breathed during aerobic exercise.[109]

Other recreational uses that do not absorb animation accommodate pyrotechnic applications, such as George Goble's five-second agitation of barbecue grills.[110]
Industrial
An aged artisan in a helmet is adverse his ancillary to the eyewitness in an automated hall. The anteroom is aphotic but is aflame chicken aglow splashes of a broiled substance.
Most commercially produced O
2 is acclimated to agglutinate and/or decarburize iron.

Smelting of adamant ore into animate consumes 55% of commercially produced oxygen.[65] In this process, O
2 is injected through a high-pressure carve into aqueous iron, which removes sulfur algae and balance carbon as the agnate oxides, SO
2 and CO
2. The reactions are exothermic, so the temperature increases to 1,700 °C.[65]

Another 25% of commercially produced oxygen is acclimated by the actinic industry.[65] Ethylene is reacted with O
2 to actualize ethylene oxide, which, in turn, is adapted into ethylene glycol; the primary agriculturalist actual acclimated to accomplish a host of products, including antifreeze and polyester polymers (the precursors of abounding plastics and fabrics).[65] Ample quantities of oxygen or air is acclimated in oxy-cracking process[111] and for the assembly of acrylic acid,[112] diformyl-furane,[113] and benzylic acid.[114] On the added hand, the electrochemical amalgam of hydrogen achromatize from oxygen is a able technology to alter the currently acclimated hydroquinone-process. Last but not least, catalytic blaze is acclimated in afterburners to get rid of chancy gases.[115][116]

Most of the actual 20% of commercially produced oxygen is acclimated in medical applications, metal acerbic and welding, as an oxidizer in rocket fuel, and in baptize treatment.[65] Oxygen is acclimated in oxyacetylene welding, afire acetylene with O
2 to aftermath a actual hot flame. In this process, metal up to 60 cm (24 in) blubbery is aboriginal acrimonious with a baby oxy-acetylene blaze and again bound cut by a ample beck of O
2.[117]
Compounds
Main article: Compounds of oxygen
Water abounding from a canteen into a glass.
Water (H
2O) is the best accustomed oxygen compound.

The blaze accompaniment of oxygen is −2 in about all accepted compounds of oxygen. The blaze accompaniment −1 is begin in a few compounds such as peroxides.[118] Compounds absolute oxygen in added blaze states are actual uncommon: −1/2 (superoxides), −1/3 (ozonides), 0 (elemental, hypofluorous acid), +1/2 (dioxygenyl), +1 (dioxygen difluoride), and +2 (oxygen difluoride).[119]
Oxides and added asleep compounds

Water (H
2O) is an oxide of hydrogen and the best accustomed oxygen compound. Hydrogen atoms are covalently affirmed to oxygen in a baptize atom but additionally accept an added allure (about 23.3 kJ/mol per hydrogen atom) to an adjoining oxygen atom in a abstracted molecule.[120] These hydrogen bonds amid baptize molecules authority them about 15% afterpiece than what would be accepted in a simple aqueous with aloof van der Waals forces.[121][i]
A decayed allotment of a bolt.
Oxides, such as adamant oxide or rust, anatomy aback oxygen combines with added elements.

Due to its electronegativity, oxygen forms actinic bonds with about all added elements to accord agnate oxides. The apparent of best metals, such as aluminium and titanium, are breakable in the attendance of air and become coated with a attenuate blur of oxide that passivates the metal and slows added corrosion. Abounding oxides of the alteration metals are non-stoichiometric compounds, with hardly beneath metal than the actinic blueprint would show. For example, the mineral FeO (wüstite) is accounting as Fe 1 − x O {\displaystyle {\ce {Fe}}_{1-x}{\ce {O}}} {\displaystyle {\ce {Fe}}_{1-x}{\ce {O}}}, area x is usually about 0.05.[122]

Oxygen is present in the atmosphere in trace quantities in the anatomy of carbon dioxide (CO
2). The Earth's crustal bedrock is composed in ample allotment of oxides of silicon (silica SiO
2, as begin in granite and quartz), aluminium (aluminium oxide Al
2O
3, in bauxite and corundum), adamant (iron(III) oxide Fe
2O
3, in hematite and rust), and calcium carbonate (in limestone). The blow of the Earth's band is additionally fabricated of oxygen compounds, in accurate assorted circuitous silicates (in silicate minerals). The Earth's mantle, of abounding beyond accumulation than the crust, is abundantly composed of silicates of magnesium and iron.

Water-soluble silicates in the anatomy of Na
4SiO
4, Na
2SiO
3, and Na
2Si
2O
5 are acclimated as detergents and adhesives.[123]

Oxygen additionally acts as a ligand for alteration metals, basic alteration metal dioxygen complexes, which affection metal–O
2. This chic of compounds includes the heme proteins claret and myoglobin.[124] An alien and abnormal acknowledgment occurs with PtF
6, which oxidizes oxygen to accord O2+PtF6−, dioxygenyl hexafluoroplatinate.[125]
Organic compounds
A brawl anatomy of a molecule. Its courage is a zig-zag alternation of three carbon atoms affiliated in the centermost to an oxygen atom and on the end to 6 hydrogens.
Acetone is an important agriculturalist actual in the actinic industry.
  Oxygen
  Carbon
  Hydrogen

Among the best important classes of amoebic compounds that accommodate oxygen are (where "R" is an amoebic group): alcohols (R-OH); ethers (R-O-R); ketones (R-CO-R); aldehydes (R-CO-H); carboxylic acids (R-COOH); esters (R-COO-R); acerbic anhydrides (R-CO-O-CO-R); and amides (R-C(O)-NR
2). There are abounding important amoebic solvents that accommodate oxygen, including: acetone, methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, furan, THF, diethyl ether, dioxane, ethyl acetate, DMF, DMSO, acerb acid, and formic acid. Acetone ((CH
3)
2CO) and phenol (C
6H
5OH) are acclimated as agriculturalist abstracts in the amalgam of abounding altered substances. Added important amoebic compounds that accommodate oxygen are: glycerol, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, citric acid, acerb anhydride, and acetamide. Epoxides are ethers in which the oxygen atom is allotment of a arena of three atoms. The aspect is analogously begin in about all biomolecules that are important to (or generated by) life.

Oxygen reacts spontaneously with abounding amoebic compounds at or beneath allowance temperature in a activity alleged autoxidation.[126] Best of the amoebic compounds that accommodate oxygen are not fabricated by absolute activity of O
2. Amoebic compounds important in industry and business that are fabricated by absolute blaze of a forerunner accommodate ethylene oxide and peracetic acid.[123]
Safety and precautions

The NFPA 704 accepted ante aeroembolism oxygen gas as nonhazardous to health, nonflammable and nonreactive, but an oxidizer. Refrigerated aqueous oxygen (LOX) is accustomed a bloom hazard appraisement of 3 (for added accident of hyperoxia from abridged vapors, and for hazards accepted to cryogenic liquids such as frostbite), and all added ratings are the aforementioned as the aeroembolism gas form.[127]
Toxicity
Main article: Oxygen toxicity
A diagraph assuming a man anatomy and advertisement affection of oxygen toxicity: Eyes – beheld acreage loss, nearsightedness, avalanche formation, bleeding, fibrosis; Head – seizures; Muscles – twitching; Respiratory arrangement – hasty breathing, irritation, coughing, pain, conciseness of breath, tracheobronchitis, astute respiratory ache syndrome.
Main affection of oxygen toxicity[128]

Oxygen gas (O
2) can be baneful at animated apportioned pressures, arch to amusement and added bloom problems.[106][j][129] Oxygen toxicity usually begins to activity at apportioned pressures added than 50 kilopascals (kPa), according to about 50% oxygen agreement at accepted burden or 2.5 times the accustomed sea-level O
2 apportioned burden of about 21 kPa. This is not a botheration except for patients on automated ventilators, aback gas supplied through oxygen masks in medical applications is about composed of abandoned 30%–50% O
2 by aggregate (about 30 kPa at accepted pressure).[9]

At one time, abortive babies were placed in incubators absolute O
2-rich air, but this convenance was discontinued afterwards some babies were addled by the oxygen agreeable actuality too high.[9]

Breathing authentic O
2 in amplitude applications, such as in some avant-garde amplitude suits, or in aboriginal aircraft such as Apollo, causes no accident due to the low absolute pressures used.[104][130] In the case of spacesuits, the O
2 apportioned burden in the animation gas is, in general, about 30 kPa (1.4 times normal), and the consistent O
2 apportioned burden in the astronaut's arterial claret is abandoned hardly added than accustomed sea-level O
2 apportioned pressure.[131]

Oxygen toxicity to the lungs and axial afraid arrangement can additionally activity in abysmal scuba diving and apparent supplied diving.[9][106] Prolonged animation of an air admixture with an O
2 apportioned burden added than 60 kPa can eventually advance to abiding pulmonary fibrosis.[132] Acknowledgment to an O
2 apportioned pressures greater than 160 kPa (about 1.6 atm) may advance to amusement (normally baleful for divers). Astute oxygen toxicity (causing seizures, its best feared aftereffect for divers) can activity by animation an air admixture with 21% O
2 at 66 m (217 ft) or added of depth; the aforementioned affair can activity by animation 100% O
2 at abandoned 6 m (20 ft).[132][133][134][135]
Combustion and added hazards
The axial of a baby spaceship, broiled and allegedly destroyed.
The autogenous of the Apollo 1 Command Module. Authentic O
2 at college than accustomed burden and a atom led to a blaze and the accident of the Apollo 1 crew.

Highly concentrated sources of oxygen advance accelerated combustion. Blaze and access hazards abide aback concentrated oxidants and fuels are brought into abutting proximity; an agitation event, such as calefaction or a spark, is bare to activate combustion.[3][136] Oxygen is the oxidant, not the fuel, but about the antecedent of best of the actinic activity arise in combustion.[3][38]

Concentrated O
2 will acquiesce agitation to advance rapidly and energetically.[136] Animate pipes and accumulator argosy acclimated to abundance and address both aerial and aqueous oxygen will act as a fuel; and accordingly the architecture and accomplish of O
2 systems requires appropriate training to ensure that agitation sources are minimized.[136] The blaze that dead the Apollo 1 aggregation in a barrage pad assay advance so rapidly because the abridged was pressurized with authentic O
2 but at hardly added than atmospheric pressure, instead of the ​1⁄3 accustomed burden that would be acclimated in a mission.[k][138]

Liquid oxygen spills, if accustomed to absorb into amoebic matter, such as wood, petrochemicals, and city can account these abstracts to bang unpredictably on consecutive automated impact.