Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance, formerly believed to be a modification of oxygen, whose chief peculiarity is that it combines with ozone and reduces it to ordinary oxygen. It has been proved to be hydrogen dioxid, H2O2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

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  • noun chemistry, archaic hydrogen peroxide

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ ozone, because it was apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

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