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Oxygen, 8O
A transparent beaker containing a light blue fluid with gas bubbles
Liquid oxygen boiling (O2)
Oxygen
AllotropesO2, O3 (ozone) and more (see Allotropes of oxygen)
Appearancegas: colorless
liquid and solid: pale blue
Standard atomic weight Ar°(O)
  • [15.99903, 15.99977]
  • 15.999±0.001 (abridged)[1]
ppm
Oxygen in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson
–
↑
O
↓
S
nitrogen ← oxygen → fluorine
kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization(O2) 6.82 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity(O2) 29.378 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure
P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
at T (K)       61 73 90
Atomic properties
Cubic crystal structure for oxygen
Speed of sound330 m/s (gas, at 27 °C)
Thermal conductivity26.58×10−3  W/(m⋅K)
Magnetic orderingparamagnetic
Molar magnetic susceptibility+3449.0×10−6 cm3/mol (293 K)[2]
CAS Number7782-44-7
History
DiscoveryMichael Sendivogius
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1604, 1771)
Named byAntoine Lavoisier (1777)
Isotopes of oxygen
Main isotopes Decay
abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct
15O
 synth 122.266 s β+100% 15N
16O 99.8%
stable
17O 0.0380% stable
18O 0.205% stable
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Oxygen is the

Earth's atmosphere, though this has changed considerably over long periods of time. Oxygen makes up almost half of the Earth's crust in the form of oxides.[3]

All

tetrapods breathing brings oxygen into the lungs where gas exchange takes place, carbon dioxide diffuses out of the blood, and oxygen diffuses into the blood. The body's circulatory system transports the oxygen the cells, where cellular respiration takes place.[4][5]

Many major classes of

ultraviolet radiation. However, ozone present at the surface is a byproduct of smog
and thus a pollutant.

Oxygen was isolated by Michael Sendivogius before 1604, but it is commonly believed that the element was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774. Priority is often given for Priestley because his work was published first. Priestley, however, called oxygen "dephlogisticated air", and did not recognize it as a chemical element. The name oxygen was coined in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier, who first recognized oxygen as a chemical element and correctly characterized the role it plays in combustion.

Common uses of oxygen include production of

life support systems in aircraft, submarines, spaceflight and diving
.

History of study

Early experiments

One of the first known experiments on the relationship between combustion and air was conducted by the 2nd century BCE Greek writer on mechanics, Philo of Byzantium. In his work Pneumatica, Philo observed that inverting a vessel over a burning candle and surrounding the vessel's neck with water resulted in some water rising into the neck.[6] Philo incorrectly surmised that parts of the air in the vessel were converted into the classical element fire and thus were able to escape through pores in the glass. Many centuries later Leonardo da Vinci built on Philo's work by observing that a portion of air is consumed during combustion and respiration.[7]

In the late 17th century, Robert Boyle proved that air is necessary for combustion. English chemist John Mayow (1641–1679) refined this work by showing that fire requires only a part of air that he called spiritus nitroaereus.[8] In one experiment, he found that placing either a mouse or a lit candle in a closed container over water caused the water to rise and replace one-fourteenth of the air's volume before extinguishing the subjects.[9] From this, he surmised that nitroaereus is consumed in both respiration and combustion.

Mayow observed that antimony increased in weight when heated, and inferred that the nitroaereus must have combined with it.[8] He also thought that the lungs separate nitroaereus from air and pass it into the blood and that animal heat and muscle movement result from the reaction of nitroaereus with certain substances in the body.[8] Accounts of these and other experiments and ideas were published in 1668 in his work Tractatus duo in the tract "De respiratione".[9]

Phlogiston theory

Main article: Phlogiston theory

Robert Hooke, Ole Borch, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Pierre Bayen all produced oxygen in experiments in the 17th and the 18th century but none of them recognized it as a chemical element.[10] This may have been in part due to the prevalence of the philosophy of combustion and corrosion called the phlogiston theory, which was then the favored explanation of those processes.[11]

Established in 1667 by the German alchemist

J. J. Becher, and modified by the chemist Georg Ernst Stahl by 1731,[12] phlogiston theory stated that all combustible materials were made of two parts. One part, called phlogiston, was given off when the substance containing it was burned, while the dephlogisticated part was thought to be its true form, or calx.[7]

Highly combustible materials that leave little residue, such as wood or coal, were thought to be made mostly of phlogiston; non-combustible substances that corrode, such as iron, contained very little. Air did not play a role in phlogiston theory, nor were any initial quantitative experiments conducted to test the idea; instead, it was based on observations of what happens when something burns, that most common objects appear to become lighter and seem to lose something in the process.[7]

Discovery

A drawing of an elderly man sitting by a table and facing parallel to the drawing. His left arm rests on a notebook, legs crossed.
Joseph Priestley
is usually given priority in the discovery.

Polish

Michael Sendivogius (Michał Sędziwój) in his work De Lapide Philosophorum Tractatus duodecim e naturae fonte et manuali experientia depromti (1604) described a substance contained in air, referring to it as 'cibus vitae' (food of life,[13]) and according to Polish historian Roman Bugaj, this substance is identical with oxygen.[14] Sendivogius, during his experiments performed between 1598 and 1604, properly recognized that the substance is equivalent to the gaseous byproduct released by the thermal decomposition of potassium nitrate. In Bugaj's view, the isolation of oxygen and the proper association of the substance to that part of air which is required for life, provides sufficient evidence for the discovery of oxygen by Sendivogius.[14] This discovery of Sendivogius was however frequently denied by the generations of scientists and chemists which succeeded him.[13]

It is also commonly claimed that oxygen was first discovered by Swedish pharmacist

mercuric oxide (HgO) and various nitrates in 1771–72.[15][16][7] Scheele called the gas "fire air" because it was then the only known agent to support combustion. He wrote an account of this discovery in a manuscript titled Treatise on Air and Fire, which he sent to his publisher in 1775. That document was published in 1777.[17]

In the meantime, on August 1, 1774, an experiment conducted by the British clergyman Joseph Priestley focused sunlight on mercuric oxide contained in a glass tube, which liberated a gas he named "dephlogisticated air".[16] He noted that candles burned brighter in the gas and that a mouse was more active and lived longer while breathing it. After breathing the gas himself, Priestley wrote: "The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air, but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards."[10] Priestley published his findings in 1775 in a paper titled "An Account of Further Discoveries in Air", which was included in the second volume of his book titled Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air.[7][18] Because he published his findings first, Priestley is usually given priority in the discovery.

The French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier later claimed to have discovered the new substance independently. Priestley visited Lavoisier in October 1774 and told him about his experiment and how he liberated the new gas. Scheele had also dispatched a letter to Lavoisier on September 30, 1774, which described his discovery of the previously unknown substance, but Lavoisier never acknowledged receiving it. (A copy of the letter was found in Scheele's belongings after his death.)[17]

Lavoisier's contribution

A drawing of a young man facing towards the viewer, but looking on the side. He wear a white curly wig, dark suit and white scarf.
Antoine Lavoisier
discredited the phlogiston theory.

Lavoisier conducted the first adequate quantitative experiments on

oxidation and gave the first correct explanation of how combustion works.[16] He used these and similar experiments, all started in 1774, to discredit the phlogiston theory and to prove that the substance discovered by Priestley and Scheele was a chemical element
.

In one experiment, Lavoisier observed that there was no overall increase in weight when tin and air were heated in a closed container.[16] He noted that air rushed in when he opened the container, which indicated that part of the trapped air had been consumed. He also noted that the tin had increased in weight and that increase was the same as the weight of the air that rushed back in. This and other experiments on combustion were documented in his book Sur la combustion en général, which was published in 1777.[16] In that work, he proved that air is a mixture of two gases; 'vital air', which is essential to combustion and respiration, and azote (Gk. ἄζωτον "lifeless"), which did not support either. Azote later became nitrogen in English, although it has kept the earlier name in French and several other European languages.[16]

Etymology

Lavoisier renamed 'vital air' to oxygène in 1777 from the Greek roots ὀξύς (oxys) (acid, literally "sharp", from the taste of acids) and -γενής (-genēs) (producer, literally begetter), because he mistakenly believed that oxygen was a constituent of all acids.[19] Chemists (such as Sir Humphry Davy in 1812) eventually determined that Lavoisier was wrong in this regard, but by then the name was too well established.[20]

Oxygen entered the English language despite opposition by English scientists and the fact that the Englishman Priestley had first isolated the gas and written about it. This is partly due to a poem praising the gas titled "Oxygen" in the popular book The Botanic Garden (1791) by Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin.[17]

Later history

A metal frame structure stands on the snow near a tree. A middle-aged man wearing a coat, boots, leather gloves and a cap stands by the structure and holds it with his right hand.
Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket

John Dalton's original atomic hypothesis presumed that all elements were monatomic and that the atoms in compounds would normally have the simplest atomic ratios with respect to one another. For example, Dalton assumed that water's formula was HO, leading to the conclusion that the atomic mass of oxygen was 8 times that of hydrogen, instead of the modern value of about 16.[21] In 1805, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Alexander von Humboldt showed that water is formed of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen; and by 1811 Amedeo Avogadro had arrived at the correct interpretation of water's composition, based on what is now called Avogadro's law and the diatomic elemental molecules in those gases.[22][a]

The first commercial method of producing oxygen was chemical, the so-called Brin process involving a reversible reaction of barium oxide. It was invented in 1852 and commercialized in 1884, but was displaced by newer methods in early 20th century.

By the late 19th century scientists realized that air could be liquefied and its components isolated by compressing and cooling it. Using a

Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski.[24]

An experiment setup with test tubes to prepare oxygen
An experiment setup for preparation of oxygen in academic laboratories

In 1891 Scottish chemist James Dewar was able to produce enough liquid oxygen for study.[25] The first commercially viable process for producing liquid oxygen was independently developed in 1895 by German engineer Carl von Linde and British engineer William Hampson. Both men lowered the temperature of air until it liquefied and then distilled the component gases by boiling them off one at a time and capturing them separately.[26] Later, in 1901, oxyacetylene welding was demonstrated for the first time by burning a mixture of acetylene and compressed O
2. This method of welding and cutting metal later became common.[26]

In 1923, the American scientist

oxidizer. Goddard successfully flew a small liquid-fueled rocket 56 m at 97 km/h on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachusetts, US.[26][27]

In academic laboratories, oxygen can be prepared by heating together potassium chlorate mixed with a small proportion of manganese dioxide.[28]

Oxygen levels in the atmosphere are trending slightly downward globally, possibly because of fossil-fuel burning.[29]

Characteristics

Properties and molecular structure

Orbital diagram, after Barrett (2002),[30] showing the participating atomic orbitals from each oxygen atom, the molecular orbitals that result from their overlap, and the aufbau
filling of the orbitals with the 12 electrons, 6 from each O atom, beginning from the lowest-energy orbitals, and resulting in covalent double-bond character from filled orbitals (and cancellation of the contributions of the pairs of σ and σ* and π and π* orbital pairs).

At

molecular formula O
2, referred to as dioxygen.[31]

As dioxygen, two oxygen atoms are

molecular orbitals formed from the atomic orbitals of the individual oxygen atoms, the filling of which results in a bond order of two. More specifically, the double bond is the result of sequential, low-to-high energy, or Aufbau, filling of orbitals, and the resulting cancellation of contributions from the 2s electrons, after sequential filling of the low σ and σ* orbitals; σ overlap of the two atomic 2p orbitals that lie along the O–O molecular axis and π overlap of two pairs of atomic 2p orbitals perpendicular to the O–O molecular axis, and then cancellation of contributions from the remaining two 2p electrons after their partial filling of the π* orbitals.[30]

This combination of cancellations and σ and π overlaps results in dioxygen's double-bond character and reactivity, and a triplet electronic

antibonding, and so their filling weakens the bond order from three to two. Because of its unpaired electrons, triplet oxygen reacts only slowly with most organic molecules, which have paired electron spins; this prevents spontaneous combustion.[33]

Liquid oxygen, temporarily suspended in a magnet owing to its paramagnetism

In the triplet form, O
2 molecules are

exchange energy between neighboring O
2 molecules.[25] Liquid oxygen is so magnetic that, in laboratory demonstrations, a bridge of liquid oxygen may be supported against its own weight between the poles of a powerful magnet.[34][c]

Singlet oxygen is a name given to several higher-energy species of molecular O
2 in which all the electron spins are paired. It is much more reactive with common organic molecules than is normal (triplet) molecular oxygen. In nature, singlet oxygen is commonly formed from water during photosynthesis, using the energy of sunlight.[35] It is also produced in the troposphere by the photolysis of ozone by light of short wavelength[36] and by the immune system as a source of active oxygen.[37] Carotenoids in photosynthetic organisms (and possibly animals) play a major role in absorbing energy from singlet oxygen and converting it to the unexcited ground state before it can cause harm to tissues.[38]

Allotropes

Main article: Allotropes of oxygen
Space-filling model
representation of dioxygen (O2) molecule

The common allotrope of elemental oxygen on Earth is called dioxygen, O
2, the major part of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen (see Occurrence). O2 has a bond length of 121 pm and a bond energy of 498 kJ/mol.[39] O2 is used by complex forms of life, such as animals, in cellular respiration. Other aspects of O
2 are covered in the remainder of this article.

Trioxygen (O
3) is usually known as

low earth orbit altitudes, sufficient atomic oxygen is present to cause corrosion of spacecraft.[41]

The

cluster.[44] This cluster has the potential to be a much more powerful oxidizer than either O
2 or O
3 and may therefore be used in rocket fuel.[42][43] A metallic phase was discovered in 1990 when solid oxygen is subjected to a pressure of above 96 GPa[45] and it was shown in 1998 that at very low temperatures, this phase becomes superconducting.[46]

Physical properties

Oxygen discharge (spectrum) tube
See also: Liquid oxygen and solid oxygen

Oxygen

liter, and seawater contains about 4.95 mL per liter.[48]
At 5 °C the solubility increases to 9.0 mL (50% more than at 25 °C) per liter for freshwater and 7.2 mL (45% more) per liter for sea water.

Oxygen gas dissolved in water at sea-level
(milliliters per liter)
5 °C 25 °C
Freshwater 9.00 6.04
Seawater 7.20 4.95

Oxygen condenses at 90.20 K (−182.95 °C, −297.31 °F) and freezes at 54.36 K (−218.79 °C, −361.82 °F).[49] Both liquid and solid O
2 are clear substances with a light sky-blue color caused by absorption in the red (in contrast with the blue color of the sky, which is due to Rayleigh scattering of blue light). High-purity liquid O
2 is usually obtained by the fractional distillation of liquefied air.[50] Liquid oxygen may also be condensed from air using liquid nitrogen as a coolant.[51]

Liquid oxygen is a highly reactive substance and must be segregated from combustible materials.[51]

The spectroscopy of molecular oxygen is associated with the atmospheric processes of aurora and airglow.[52] The absorption in the Herzberg continuum and Schumann–Runge bands in the ultraviolet produces atomic oxygen that is important in the chemistry of the middle atmosphere.[53] Excited-state singlet molecular oxygen is responsible for red chemiluminescence in solution.[54]

Table of thermal and physical properties of oxygen (O2) at atmospheric pressure:[55][56]

Temperature (K) Density (kg/m^3) Specific heat (kJ/kg °C) Dynamic viscosity (kg/m s) Kinematic viscosity (m^2/s) Thermal conductivity (W/m °C) Thermal diffusivity (m^2/s) Prandtl Number
100 3.945 0.962 7.64E-06 1.94E-06 0.00925 2.44E-06 0.796
150 2.585 0.921 1.15E-05 4.44E-06 0.0138 5.80E-06 0.766
200 1.93 0.915 1.48E-05 7.64E-06 0.0183 1.04E-05 0.737
250 1.542 0.915 1.79E-05 1.16E-05 0.0226 1.60E-05 0.723
300 1.284 0.92 2.07E-05 1.61E-05 0.0268 2.27E-05 0.711
350 1.1 0.929 2.34E-05 2.12E-05 0.0296 2.90E-05 0.733
400 0.962 1.0408 2.58E-05 2.68E-05 0.033 3.64E-05 0.737
450 0.8554 0.956 2.81E-05 3.29E-05 0.0363 4.44E-05 0.741
500 0.7698 0.972 3.03E-05 3.94E-05 0.0412 5.51E-05 0.716
550 0.6998 0.988 3.24E-05 4.63E-05 0.0441 6.38E-05 0.726
600 0.6414 1.003 3.44E-05 5.36E-05 0.0473 7.35E-05 0.729
700 0.5498 1.031 3.81E-05 6.93E-05 0.0528 9.31E-05 0.744
800 0.481 1.054 4.15E-05 8.63E-05 0.0589 1.16E-04 0.743
900 0.4275 1.074 4.47E-05 1.05E-04 0.0649 1.41E-04 0.74
1000 0.3848 1.09 4.77E-05 1.24E-04 0.071 1.69E-04 0.733
1100 0.3498 1.103 5.06E-05 1.45E-04 0.0758 1.96E-04 0.736
1200 0.3206 1.0408 5.33E-05 1.661E-04 0.0819 2.29E-04 0.725
1300 0.296 1.125 5.88E-05 1.99E-04 0.0871 2.62E-04 0.721

Isotopes and stellar origin

Main article: Isotopes of oxygen
A concentric-sphere diagram, showing, from the core to the outer shell, iron, silicon, oxygen, neon, carbon, helium and hydrogen layers.
Late in a massive star's life, 16O concentrates in the O-shell, 17O in the H-shell and 18O in the He-shell.

Naturally occurring oxygen is composed of three stable isotopes, 16O, 17O, and 18O, with 16O being the most abundant (99.762% natural abundance).[57]

Most 16O is

14N (made abundant from CNO burning) captures a 4He nucleus, making 18O common in the helium-rich zones of evolved, massive stars.[58]

Thirteen

decay mode of the isotopes lighter than 16O is β+ decay[60][61][62] to yield nitrogen, and the most common mode for the isotopes heavier than 18O is beta decay to yield fluorine.[57]

Occurrence

See also:
Silicate minerals, Category:Oxide minerals, Stellar population, Cosmochemistry, and Astrochemistry
Ten most common elements in the
Milky Way Galaxy estimated spectroscopically[63]
Z Element Mass fraction in parts per million
1 Hydrogen 739,000 71 × mass of oxygen (red bar)
2 Helium 240,000 23 × mass of oxygen (red bar)
8 Oxygen 10,400 10400
 
6 Carbon 4,600 4600
 
10 Neon 1,340 1340
 
26 Iron 1,090 1090
 
7 Nitrogen 960 960
 
14 Silicon 650 650
 
12 Magnesium 580 580
 
16 Sulfur 440 440
 

Oxygen is the most abundant chemical element by mass in the Earth's

Earth's atmosphere, taking up 20.8% of its volume and 23.1% of its mass (some 1015 tonnes).[16][66][d] Earth is unusual among the planets of the Solar System in having such a high concentration of oxygen gas in its atmosphere: Mars (with 0.1% O
2 by volume) and Venus
have much less. The O
2 surrounding those planets is produced solely by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen-containing molecules such as carbon dioxide.

World map showing that the sea-surface oxygen is depleted around the equator and increases towards the poles.
Cold water holds more dissolved O
2.

The unusually high concentration of oxygen gas on Earth is the result of the oxygen cycle. This biogeochemical cycle describes the movement of oxygen within and between its three main reservoirs on Earth: the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the lithosphere. The main driving factor of the oxygen cycle is photosynthesis, which is responsible for modern Earth's atmosphere. Photosynthesis releases oxygen into the atmosphere, while respiration, decay, and combustion remove it from the atmosphere. In the present equilibrium, production and consumption occur at the same rate.[67]

Free oxygen also occurs in solution in the world's water bodies. The increased solubility of O
2 at lower temperatures (see Physical properties) has important implications for ocean life, as polar oceans support a much higher density of life due to their higher oxygen content.[68] Water polluted with plant nutrients such as nitrates or phosphates may stimulate growth of algae by a process called eutrophication and the decay of these organisms and other biomaterials may reduce the O
2 content in eutrophic water bodies. Scientists assess this aspect of water quality by measuring the water's biochemical oxygen demand, or the amount of O
2 needed to restore it to a normal concentration.[69]

Analysis

Time evolution of oxygen-18 concentration on the scale of 500 million years showing many local peaks.
500 million years of climate change
vs. 18O

shells and skeletons of marine organisms to determine the climate millions of years ago (see oxygen isotope ratio cycle). Seawater molecules that contain the lighter isotope, oxygen-16, evaporate at a slightly faster rate than water molecules containing the 12% heavier oxygen-18, and this disparity increases at lower temperatures.[70] During periods of lower global temperatures, snow and rain from that evaporated water tends to be higher in oxygen-16, and the seawater left behind tends to be higher in oxygen-18. Marine organisms then incorporate more oxygen-18 into their skeletons and shells than they would in a warmer climate.[70] Paleoclimatologists also directly measure this ratio in the water molecules of ice core
samples as old as hundreds of thousands of years.

Planetary geologists have measured the relative quantities of oxygen isotopes in samples from the Earth, the Moon, Mars, and meteorites, but were long unable to obtain reference values for the isotope ratios in the Sun, believed to be the same as those of the primordial solar nebula. Analysis of a silicon wafer exposed to the solar wind in space and returned by the crashed Genesis spacecraft has shown that the Sun has a higher proportion of oxygen-16 than does the Earth. The measurement implies that an unknown process depleted oxygen-16 from the Sun's disk of protoplanetary material prior to the coalescence of dust grains that formed the Earth.[71]

Oxygen presents two spectrophotometric absorption bands peaking at the wavelengths 687 and 760 nm. Some remote sensing scientists have proposed using the measurement of the radiance coming from vegetation canopies in those bands to characterize plant health status from a satellite platform.[72] This approach exploits the fact that in those bands it is possible to discriminate the vegetation's reflectance from its fluorescence, which is much weaker. The measurement is technically difficult owing to the low signal-to-noise ratio and the physical structure of vegetation; but it has been proposed as a possible method of monitoring the carbon cycle from satellites on a global scale.

Biological production and role of O2

Main article: Dioxygen in biological reactions

Photosynthesis and respiration

A diagram of photosynthesis processes, including income of water and carbon dioxide, illumination and release of oxygen. Reactions produce ATP and NADPH in a Calvin cycle with a sugar as a by product.
Photosynthesis splits water to liberate O
2 and fixes CO
2 into sugar in what is called a Calvin cycle
.

In nature, free oxygen is produced by the

light-driven splitting of water during oxygenic photosynthesis. According to some estimates, green algae and cyanobacteria in marine environments provide about 70% of the free oxygen produced on Earth, and the rest is produced by terrestrial plants.[73] Other estimates of the oceanic contribution to atmospheric oxygen are higher, while some estimates are lower, suggesting oceans produce ~45% of Earth's atmospheric oxygen each year.[74]

A simplified overall formula for photosynthesis is[75]

6 CO2 + 6 H
2O + photons → C
6H
12O
6 + 6 O
2

or simply

carbon dioxide + water + sunlight → glucose + dioxygen

Photolytic

thylakoid membranes of photosynthetic organisms and requires the energy of four photons.[e] Many steps are involved, but the result is the formation of a proton gradient across the thylakoid membrane, which is used to synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) via photophosphorylation.[76] The O
2 remaining (after production of the water molecule) is released into the atmosphere.[f]

Oxygen is used in mitochondria in the generation of ATP during oxidative phosphorylation. The reaction for aerobic respiration is essentially the reverse of photosynthesis and is simplified as

C
6H
12O
6 + 6 O
2 → 6 CO2 + 6 H
2O + 2880 kJ/mol

In vertebrates, O
2 diffuses through membranes in the lungs and into red blood cells. Hemoglobin binds O
2, changing color from bluish red to bright red[40] (CO
2 is released from another part of hemoglobin through the Bohr effect). Other animals use hemocyanin (molluscs and some arthropods) or hemerythrin (spiders and lobsters).[66] A liter of blood can dissolve 200 cm3 of O
2.[66]

Until the discovery of anaerobic metazoa,[77] oxygen was thought to be a requirement for all complex life.[78]

Great Oxygenation Event, about a billion years after the first appearance of these organisms.[79][80]

An adult human at rest inhales 1.8 to 2.4 grams of oxygen per minute.[81] This amounts to more than 6 billion tonnes of oxygen inhaled by humanity per year.[g]

Living organisms

Partial pressures of oxygen in the human body (PO2)
Unit Alveolar pulmonary
gas pressures		 Arterial blood oxygen Venous blood gas
kPa
 14.2 11[h]-13[h] 4.0[h]-5.3[h]
mmHg
 107 75[82]-100[82] 30[83]-40[83]

The free oxygen

venous system, respectively. Partial pressure is the pressure that oxygen would have if it alone occupied the volume.[84]

Build-up in the atmosphere

Main article: Geological history of oxygen
A graph showing time evolution of oxygen pressure on Earth; the pressure increases from zero to 0.2 atmospheres.
O
2 build-up in Earth's atmosphere: 1) no O
2 produced; 2) O
2 produced, but absorbed in oceans & seabed rock; 3) O
2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces and formation of ozone layer; 4–5) O
2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates

Free oxygen gas was almost nonexistent in

Earth's atmosphere before photosynthetic archaea and bacteria evolved, probably about 3.5 billion years ago. Free oxygen first appeared in significant quantities during the Paleoproterozoic eon (between 3.0 and 2.3 billion years ago).[85] Even if there was much dissolved iron in the oceans when oxygenic photosynthesis was getting more common, it appears the banded iron formations were created by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria which dominated the deeper areas of the photic zone, while oxygen-producing cyanobacteria covered the shallows.[86] Free oxygen began to outgas from the oceans 3–2.7 billion years ago, reaching 10% of its present level around 1.7 billion years ago.[85][87]

The presence of large amounts of dissolved and free oxygen in the oceans and atmosphere may have driven most of the extant

Great Oxygenation Event (oxygen catastrophe) about 2.4 billion years ago. Cellular respiration using O
2 enables aerobic organisms to produce much more ATP than anaerobic organisms.[88] Cellular respiration of O
2 occurs in all eukaryotes
, including all complex multicellular organisms such as plants and animals.

Since the beginning of the Cambrian period 540 million years ago, atmospheric O
2 levels have fluctuated between 15% and 30% by volume.[89] Towards the end of the Carboniferous period (about 300 million years ago) atmospheric O
2 levels reached a maximum of 35% by volume,[89] which may have contributed to the large size of insects and amphibians at this time.[90]

Variations in atmospheric oxygen concentration have shaped past climates. When oxygen declined, atmospheric density dropped, which in turn increased surface evaporation, causing precipitation increases and warmer temperatures.[91]

At the current rate of photosynthesis it would take about 2,000 years to regenerate the entire O
2 in the present atmosphere.[92]

Extraterrestrial free oxygen

Main article: Extraterrestrial atmosphere

In the field of

celestial bodies with processes and conditions (such as a peculiar hydrosphere) which allow free oxygen,[93][94][95] like with Europa's and Ganymede's
thin oxygen atmospheres.[96]

Industrial production

See also: Air separation, Oxygen evolution, and Fractional distillation
A drawing of three vertical pipes connected at the bottom and filled with oxygen (left pipe), water (middle) and hydrogen (right). Anode and cathode electrodes are inserted into the left and right pipes and externally connected to a battery.
Hofmann electrolysis apparatus
used in electrolysis of water.

One hundred million tonnes of O
2 are extracted from air for industrial uses annually by two primary methods.[17] The most common method is fractional distillation of liquefied air, with N
2 distilling as a vapor while O
2 is left as a liquid.[17]

The other primary method of producing O
2 is passing a stream of clean, dry air through one bed of a pair of identical

vacuum swing adsorption).[97]

Oxygen gas can also be produced through

oxoacids. Chemical catalysts can be used as well, such as in chemical oxygen generators or oxygen candles that are used as part of the life-support equipment on submarines, and are still part of standard equipment on commercial airliners in case of depressurization emergencies. Another air separation method is forcing air to dissolve through ceramic membranes based on zirconium dioxide by either high pressure or an electric current, to produce nearly pure O
2 gas.[69]

Storage

Oxygen and MAPP gas
compressed-gas cylinders with regulators

Oxygen storage methods include high-pressure oxygen tanks, cryogenics and chemical compounds. For reasons of economy, oxygen is often transported in bulk as a liquid in specially insulated tankers, since one liter of liquefied oxygen is equivalent to 840 liters of gaseous oxygen at atmospheric pressure and 20 °C (68 °F).[17] Such tankers are used to refill bulk liquid-oxygen storage containers, which stand outside hospitals and other institutions that need large volumes of pure oxygen gas. Liquid oxygen is passed through heat exchangers, which convert the cryogenic liquid into gas before it enters the building. Oxygen is also stored and shipped in smaller cylinders containing the compressed gas; a form that is useful in certain portable medical applications and oxy-fuel welding and cutting.[17]

Applications

See also: Breathing gas, Redox, and Combustion

Medical

A gray device with a label DeVILBISS LT4000 and some text on the front panel. A green plastic pipe is running from the device.
An oxygen concentrator in an emphysema
patient's house
Main article: Oxygen therapy

Uptake of O
2 from the air is the essential purpose of

pulmonary artery pressure, and any disease that impairs the body's ability to take up and use gaseous oxygen.[98]

Treatments are flexible enough to be used in hospitals, the patient's home, or increasingly by portable devices. Oxygen tents were once commonly used in oxygen supplementation, but have since been replaced mostly by the use of oxygen masks or nasal cannulas.[99]

anaerobic bacteria that cause gas gangrene, so increasing its partial pressure helps kill them.[104][105] Decompression sickness occurs in divers who decompress too quickly after a dive, resulting in bubbles of inert gas, mostly nitrogen and helium, forming in the blood. Increasing the pressure of O
2 as soon as possible helps to redissolve the bubbles back into the blood so that these excess gasses can be exhaled naturally through the lungs.[98][106][107] Normobaric oxygen administration at the highest available concentration is frequently used as first aid for any diving injury that may involve inert gas bubble formation in the tissues. There is epidemiological support for its use from a statistical study of cases recorded in a long term database.[108][109][110]

Life support and recreational use

Low-pressure pure O
2 is used in space suits
.

An application of O
2 as a low-pressure breathing gas is in modern space suits, which surround their occupant's body with the breathing gas. These devices use nearly pure oxygen at about one-third normal pressure, resulting in a normal blood partial pressure of O
2. This trade-off of higher oxygen concentration for lower pressure is needed to maintain suit flexibility.[111][112]

rebreathers, or decompression at relatively shallow depths (~6 meters depth, or less),[113][114] or medical treatment in recompression chambers at pressures up to 2.8 bar, where acute oxygen toxicity can be managed without the risk of drowning. Deeper diving requires significant dilution of O
2 with other gases, such as nitrogen or helium, to prevent oxygen toxicity.[113]

People who climb mountains or fly in non-pressurized

exothermic
reaction.

Oxygen, as a mild euphoric, has a history of recreational use in oxygen bars and in sports. Oxygen bars are establishments found in the United States since the late 1990s that offer higher than normal O
2 exposure for a minimal fee.[115] Professional athletes, especially in American football, sometimes go off-field between plays to don oxygen masks to boost performance. The pharmacological effect is doubted; a placebo effect is a more likely explanation.[115] Available studies support a performance boost from oxygen enriched mixtures only if it is inhaled during aerobic exercise.[116]

Other recreational uses that do not involve breathing include

George Goble's five-second ignition of barbecue grills.[117]

Industrial

An elderly worker in a helmet is facing his side to the viewer in an industrial hall. The hall is dark but is illuminated yellow glowing splashes of a melted substance.
Most commercially produced O
2 is used to smelt and/or decarburize iron
.

Smelting of iron ore into steel consumes 55% of commercially produced oxygen.[69] In this process, O
2 is injected through a high-pressure lance into molten iron, which removes sulfur impurities and excess carbon as the respective oxides, SO
2 and CO
2. The reactions are exothermic, so the temperature increases to 1,700 °C.[69]

Another 25% of commercially produced oxygen is used by the chemical industry.

fabrics).[69]

Most of the remaining 20% of commercially produced oxygen is used in medical applications,

oxyacetylene welding, burning acetylene with O
2 to produce a very hot flame. In this process, metal up to 60 cm (24 in) thick is first heated with a small oxy-acetylene flame and then quickly cut by a large stream of O
2.[118]

Compounds

Main article:
Compounds of oxygen
Water flowing from a bottle into a glass.
Water
(H
2O) is the most familiar oxygen compound.

The oxidation state of oxygen is −2 in almost all known compounds of oxygen. The oxidation state −1 is found in a few compounds such as peroxides.[119] Compounds containing oxygen in other oxidation states are very uncommon: −1/2 (superoxides), −1/3 (ozonides), 0 (elemental, hypofluorous acid), +1/2 (dioxygenyl), +1 (dioxygen difluoride), and +2 (oxygen difluoride).[120]

Oxides and other inorganic compounds

covalently bonded to oxygen in a water molecule but also have an additional attraction (about 23.3 kJ/mol per hydrogen atom) to an adjacent oxygen atom in a separate molecule.[121] These hydrogen bonds between water molecules hold them approximately 15% closer than what would be expected in a simple liquid with just van der Waals forces.[122][j]

A rusty piece of a bolt.
Oxides, such as iron oxide or rust
, form when oxygen combines with other elements.

Due to its electronegativity, oxygen forms chemical bonds with almost all other elements to give corresponding oxides. The surface of most metals, such as aluminium and titanium, are oxidized in the presence of air and become coated with a thin film of oxide that passivates the metal and slows further corrosion. Many oxides of the transition metals are non-stoichiometric compounds, with slightly less metal than the chemical formula would show. For example, the mineral FeO (wüstite) is written as , where x is usually around 0.05.[123]

Oxygen is present in the atmosphere in trace quantities in the form of

silicate minerals
). The Earth's mantle, of much larger mass than the crust, is largely composed of silicates of magnesium and iron.

Water-soluble silicates in the form of Na
4SiO
4, Na
2SiO
3, and Na
2Si
2O
5 are used as detergents and adhesives.[124]

Oxygen also acts as a

transition metal dioxygen complexes, which feature metal–O
2. This class of compounds includes the heme proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin.[125] An exotic and unusual reaction occurs with PtF
6, which oxidizes oxygen to give O2+PtF6−, dioxygenyl hexafluoroplatinate.[126]

Organic compounds

A ball structure of a molecule. Its backbone is a zig-zag chain of three carbon atoms connected in the center to an oxygen atom and on the end to 6 hydrogens.
Acetone
is an important feeder material in the chemical industry.
  Oxygen
  Carbon
  Hydrogen

Among the most important classes of organic compounds that contain oxygen are (where "R" is an organic group): alcohols (R-OH); ethers (R-O-R); ketones (R-CO-R); aldehydes (R-CO-H); carboxylic acids (R-COOH); esters (R-COO-R); acid anhydrides (R-CO-O-CO-R); and amides (R-C(O)-NR
2). There are many important organic solvents that contain oxygen, including: acetone, methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, furan, THF, diethyl ether, dioxane, ethyl acetate, DMF, DMSO, acetic acid, and formic acid. Acetone ((CH
3)
2CO) and phenol (C
6H
5OH) are used as feeder materials in the synthesis of many different substances. Other important organic compounds that contain oxygen are: glycerol, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, citric acid, acetic anhydride, and acetamide. Epoxides are ethers in which the oxygen atom is part of a ring of three atoms. The element is similarly found in almost all biomolecules that are important to (or generated by) life.

Oxygen reacts spontaneously with many organic compounds at or below room temperature in a process called autoxidation.[127] Most of the organic compounds that contain oxygen are not made by direct action of O
2. Organic compounds important in industry and commerce that are made by direct oxidation of a precursor include ethylene oxide and peracetic acid.[124]

Safety and precautions

Oxygen
Hazards
GHS labelling:
GHS03: Oxidizing
H272
P220, P244, P370+P376, P403
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)

The NFPA 704 standard rates compressed oxygen gas as nonhazardous to health, nonflammable and nonreactive, but an oxidizer. Refrigerated liquid oxygen (LOX) is given a health hazard rating of 3 (for increased risk of hyperoxia from condensed vapors, and for hazards common to cryogenic liquids such as frostbite), and all other ratings are the same as the compressed gas form.[128]

Toxicity

Main article: Oxygen toxicity
A diagram showing a male torso and listing symptoms of oxygen toxicity: Eyes – visual field loss, nearsightedness, cataract formation, bleeding, fibrosis; Head – seizures; Muscles – twitching; Respiratory system – jerky breathing, irritation, coughing, pain, shortness of breath, tracheobronchitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Main symptoms of oxygen toxicity[129]

Oxygen gas (O
2) can be

mechanical ventilators, since gas supplied through oxygen masks in medical applications is typically composed of only 30–50% O
2 by volume (about 30 kPa at standard pressure).[10]

At one time,

premature babies were placed in incubators containing O
2-rich air, but this practice was discontinued after some babies were blinded by the oxygen content being too high.[10]

Breathing pure O
2 in space applications, such as in some modern space suits, or in early spacecraft such as

Apollo, causes no damage due to the low total pressures used.[111][131] In the case of spacesuits, the O
2 partial pressure in the breathing gas is, in general, about 30 kPa (1.4 times normal), and the resulting O
2 partial pressure in the astronaut's arterial blood is only marginally more than normal sea-level O
2 partial pressure.[132]

Oxygen toxicity to the lungs and

surface supplied diving.[10][113] Prolonged breathing of an air mixture with an O
2 partial pressure more than 60 kPa can eventually lead to permanent pulmonary fibrosis.[133] Exposure to an O
2 partial pressures greater than 160 kPa (about 1.6 atm) may lead to convulsions (normally fatal for divers). Acute oxygen toxicity (causing seizures, its most feared effect for divers) can occur by breathing an air mixture with 21% O
2 at 66 m (217 ft) or more of depth; the same thing can occur by breathing 100% O
2 at only 6 m (20 ft).[133][134][135][136]

Combustion and other hazards

The inside of a small spaceship, charred and apparently destroyed.
The interior of the Apollo 1 Command Module. Pure O
2 at higher than normal pressure and a spark led to a fire and the loss of the Apollo 1
crew.

Highly concentrated sources of oxygen promote rapid combustion. Fire and explosion hazards exist when concentrated oxidants and fuels are brought into close proximity; an ignition event, such as heat or a spark, is needed to trigger combustion.[33] Oxygen is the oxidant, not the fuel.

Concentrated O
2 will allow combustion to proceed rapidly and energetically.[33] Steel pipes and storage vessels used to store and transmit both gaseous and liquid oxygen will act as a fuel; and therefore the design and manufacture of O
2 systems requires special training to ensure that ignition sources are minimized.[33] The fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew in a launch pad test spread so rapidly because the capsule was pressurized with pure O
2 but at slightly more than atmospheric pressure, instead of the 1⁄3 normal pressure that would be used in a mission.[l][138]

Liquid oxygen spills, if allowed to soak into organic matter, such as wood, petrochemicals, and asphalt can cause these materials to detonate unpredictably on subsequent mechanical impact.[33]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ These results were mostly ignored until 1860. Part of this rejection was due to the belief that atoms of one element would have no chemical affinity towards atoms of the same element, and part was due to apparent exceptions to Avogadro's law that were not explained until later in terms of dissociating molecules.
  2. ^ An orbital is a concept from quantum mechanics that models an electron as a wave-like particle that has a spatial distribution about an atom or molecule.
  3. ^ Oxygen's paramagnetism can be used analytically in paramagnetic oxygen gas analysers that determine the purity of gaseous oxygen. ("Company literature of Oxygen analyzers (triplet)". Servomex. Archived from the original on March 8, 2008. Retrieved December 15, 2007.)
  4. ^ Figures given are for values up to 80 km (50 mi) above the surface
  5. ^ Thylakoid membranes are part of chloroplasts in algae and plants while they simply are one of many membrane structures in cyanobacteria. In fact, chloroplasts are thought to have evolved from cyanobacteria that were once symbiotic partners with the progenitors of plants and algae.
  6. oxygen evolving complex (OEC) or water-splitting complex found associated with the lumenal side of thylakoid membranes. Manganese is an important cofactor, and calcium and chloride
    are also required for the reaction to occur. (Raven 2005)
  7. ^ (1.8 grams/min/person)×(60 min/h)×(24 h/day)×(365 days/year)×(6.6 billion people)/1,000,000 g/t=6.24 billion tonnes
  8. ^ a b c d Derived from mmHg values using 0.133322 kPa/mmHg
  9. ^ The reason is that increasing the proportion of oxygen in the breathing gas at low pressure acts to augment the inspired O
    2     partial pressure nearer to that found at sea-level.
  10. polar molecule. The interactions between the different dipoles
    of each molecule cause a net attraction force.
  11. ^ Since O
    2    's partial pressure is the fraction of O
    2     times the total pressure, elevated partial pressures can occur either from high O
    2     fraction in breathing gas or from high breathing gas pressure, or a combination of both.
  12. ^ No single ignition source of the fire was conclusively identified, although some evidence points to an arc from an electrical spark.[137]

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