Ozone Full Form

(Named it after the Greek verb ozein (to smell), from the peculiar odor in lightning storms)

Ozone (3) or trioxygen, is a triatomic molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope (O2). Ozon, coined in 1840 by Christian Friedrich Schönbein, who named it after the Greek verb ozein “to smell” , from the peculiar odor in lightning storms.


Short FormOzone
Full FormNamed it after the Greek verb ozein (to smell), from the peculiar odor in lightning storms
CategoryMiscellaneous > Etymology (Word Origins)
CountryWorldwide
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