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noun
Oxy-  n.  (Chem.) A prefix, also used adjectively, designating:
(a)
A compound containing oxygen.
(b)
A compound containing the hydroxyl group, more properly designated by hydroxy-. See Hydroxy-.
Oxy acid. See Oxyacid (below).





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... the door of the safe had swung open. The air was full of a penetrating smell of scorched metal. Jimmy was not an expert in these matters, but he had read from time to time of modern burglars and their methods, and he gathered that an oxy-acetylene blow-pipe, with its flame that cuts steel as a knife cuts cheese, had been ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse


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