"Oxygen is usually very unreactive in its molecular state as O2, or, when you do break the bond, it reacts uncontrollably.

One theory suggested carbon dioxide could potentially be stripped into molecular oxygen (O2) and carbon (C) instead, but "nobody had ever detected" such a process, Ng told Live Science.

feature ruth researchI think about oxygen a lot more than I used to. This is because I am studying a chemical defense that turns ordinary oxygen, the same old stuff we obtain from breathing air – the ...

The energy required to break a carbon dioxide molecule into a CO+O is a little more than five electron volts (EV), but to form C+O2 you need about 11.44 EV, the researchers said.

That is, two oxygen atoms bound together to form the dioxygen (O2) molecule. The oxygen molecules were discovered in the Orion star-forming region. However, they are few in number.

A team of chemists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has succeeded in pulling an oxygen atom from a molecule and replacing it with a nitrogen atom. In their study ...

Chemists have synthesized the first stable molecule whose chirality is solely attributed to a stereogenic oxygen, according to a new study (Nature 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05719-z).

Rosetta measured between 1 and 10 oxygen molecules for every 100 water molecules coming off the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which is currently circling the Sun once every six and a half years.