Words similar to oxy

Example sentences for: oxy

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The year before the outbreak of the American Revolution, Priestley succeeded in removing from air, so he thought, the substance called phlogiston which was thought to be what put fires out, and dubbed his dephlogisticated air oxygen because he supposed it to be an essential ingredient of acids (Greek oxy -, sharp—as in oxymoron —plus - gen , related to the verb gignomai , I become, happen, am born) .
Oxy comes from Greek oxus sharp < IE * ak , sharp and sour both being descriptive of acid.