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by kazinator
1637 days ago
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"Acid" is from Latin acidus (sour, sharp, tart) by way of French. "Oxygen" is a word invented in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier, from the Greek oxys (sharp, acid): same thing! Lavoisier also invented "oxide" from ox(ygène) + (ac)ide. |
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