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Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.

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Element 76% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Gas 76% connected

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

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Letter 76% connected

One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

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Air 70% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Ozone 70% connected

A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three a…

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Water 70% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Selenite 70% connected

A salt of selenious acid.

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Oxygen 92% connected

A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and ab…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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