ozone

Substantiv

1. 1

   An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.

   Lightning flashed again, the thunder came a second later. It rained harder. The smell of ozone was strong. You could feel the charge in the air.

   Martin said that the National Park Service invested in “a state-of-the-art ozone nanobubbler filtration system” that is intended to keep algae out.

2. 2

   umgangssprachlichFresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.

   A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ozone-baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.

   To Ramsgate baths she sped, in quest / Of seaweed and ozone ; / For seaweed and ozone were best, / They said, to give her tone.

   It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone, seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.

Verb

1. 1

   To treat with ozone.

   Whenever it exists, as it usually does, even where the tide water freshens at the ebb, it seems to have a purifying tendency, probably by ozoning the superincumbent atmosphere.

   I worked nonstop to make the house safe. Periodically I ozoned the first-floor bathroom, but it still made us sick.

Formen

Plural

ozones

Präteritum

ozoned

Partizip II

ozoned

Partizip I

ozoning

3. Person Singular

ozones