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liquid oxygen

n. a bluish transparent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants [syn: LOX]

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Liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen—abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries—is one of the physical forms of elemental oxygen.

Liquid Oxygen (supplement)

Liquid Oxygen is the name of a product that is a solution of hydrogen peroxide and other compounds including sodium chloride (common salt) that claims to help with " jet lag, fatigue, altitude sickness, headaches, hangovers, youthful skin, energy, and insomnia". Ken Harvey, a member of the World Health Organisation team that formulated criteria for the promotion of medicinal drugs and a member of Auspharm Consumer Health Watch, states that the product is "no more than salty water", and that most forms of water carry some dissolved oxygen. The Federal Trade Commission has prosecuted purveyors of such products for making "blatantly false and unsubstantiated health claims".

The product claims to have an effect through increasing the amount of oxygen in the body but this is unnecessary as oxygen is absorbed by the lungs via breathing.

Usage examples of "liquid oxygen".

At the same time, liquid oxygen, pumped from the nozzles instead of the hypergol, extinguished the plasma cushion, and the rocket, descending on a cold drive, regained its vision.

You have a boat-tail of four space shuttle main engines here, attached to the bottom of a modified shuttle external tank, so the lower stage is powered by liquid oxygen and hydrogen.

Equipment specialists formed up to either side of him, carrying a portable liquid oxygen breathing and cooling unit, hooked up to his suit.

The clear liquid oxygen they had poured hi was thoroughly soaked up in the cotton in ten seconds.

You can't live in liquid oxygen, of course, because of temperature problems.

As the engine began to bum more pure internal liquid oxygen, the speed increased.

As for liquid oxygen, all you had to do was go out and shovel the air blanket at the top level.

It was maddening to know that there were still many kilograms of liquid oxygen in the cruiser's main tanks, but there was no way in which they could use it.

A Clippership stood waiting on Pad Three, a thin wisp of white vapor wafting from the liquid oxygen hose connected to its LOX tank.

The electronics bay held, among other items, the electrical controls for the main engine's liquid oxygen pump.

The fuel for the X-1 was alcohol and liquid oxygen, oxygen converted from a gas to a liquid by lowering its temperature to 297 degrees below zero.

Steam from the liquid oxygen and other spilled fluids was filling the firmary.

It was essentially a tank of liquid oxygen, packed in the space from which stores had been taken away.