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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or employing a mixture or combination of oxygen and hydrogen: as, oxyhydrogen gas.

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

  • adjective (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen at over 5000° F.
  • adjective (Chem.) See Blowpipe.
  • adjective a form of microscope arranged so as to use the light produced by burning lime or limestone under a current of oxyhydrogen gas.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
  • noun chemistry A potentially explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen

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