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Metallic Oxygen ??? 

By: Zimbler0 in POPE IV | Recommend this post (2)
Thu, 26 Jan 17 6:15 AM | 49 view(s)
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1439-7641(2002011Cool3:1%3C53::AID-CPHC53%3E3.0.CO;2-2/abstract?globalMessage=0

Oxygen, as the breath and carrier of life, is an isolated molecule under familliar conditions. As a condensed-phase fluid at 1.2 million atmospheres of pressure, it is a carrier of electric current: metallic oxygen. The metallisation of oxygen forces us to reconsider the very basis of our classification of the elements as metals or nonmetals. At three million atmospheres, the periodic table shows only a handful of elements which can be considered nonmetallic.

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By: monkeytrots in POPE IV
Thu, 26 Jan 17 2:40 AM 		Msg. 19005 of 47202

DE - for elements, molecular weight and atomic weight are both acceptable, and interchangeable. You are correct that 'atomic weight' is the more precise term.

Free radical O does exist in nature, as does C. However, a molecule, by definition, is a compound of two or more atoms - so yeah, I should have used the term 'atomic mass' or 'atomic weight' for C and O,and then thrown in 'molecular weight' for only 'octane'. Would have had to include a note that molecular weight and atomic weight are measuring the same thing - the total weight of the atom and the total weight of atom(s) when in a compound. You have now made that point.

There are several known allotropes of oxygen. The most familiar is molecular oxygen (O2), present at significant levels in Earth's atmosphere and also known as dioxygen or triplet oxygen. Another is the highly reactive ozone (O3). Others include:

Atomic oxygen (O1, a free radical).
Singlet oxygen (O2*), either of two metastable states of molecular oxygen.
Tetraoxygen (O4), another metastable form.
Solid oxygen, existing in six variously colored phases, of which one is O8 and another one metallic.

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