ozone

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈəʊzəʊn/
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• Received-Pronunciation, obsolete: /ə(ʊ)ˈzəʊn/
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• General-American: /ˈoʊzoʊn/
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• CMU ARPABET: OW1 Z OW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From German Ozon, coined 1840 by Christian Friedrich Schönbein, from Ancient Greek ὄζον (ózon), neuter participle of ὄζω (ózō, “I smell”), in reference to its pungent odour. The “fresh air” sense is from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: osoon — O3
• Albanian: ozoni — O3
• Arabic: أُوزُون (ʔūzūn) — O3
• Arabic: أُوزُون (ʔozon) — O3
• Armenian: օզոն (ōzon) — O3
• Azerbaijani: ozon — O3
• Belarusian: азо́н (azón) — O3
• Bengali: ওজন (ōjon) — O3
• Bengali: ওজোন (ōjōn) — O3
• Bulgarian: озо́н (ozón) — O3
• Burmese: အိုဇုန်း (uijun:) — O3
• Catalan: ozó — O3
• Chinese Cantonese: 臭氧 (cau3 joeng5) — O3
• Chinese: 臭氧 (chhàu-iâng) — O3
• Chinese Mandarin: 臭氧 (chòuyǎng) — O3
• Czech: ozón — O3
• Czech: ozon — O3
• Danish: ozon — O3
• Dutch: ozon — O3
• Esperanto: ozono — O3
• Estonian: osoon — O3
• Finnish: otsoni — O3
• French: ozone — O3
• Friulian: ozon — O3
• Georgian: ოზონი (ozoni) — O3
• German: Ozon — O3
• Greek: όζον (ózon) — O3
• Gujarati: ત્રિપ્રાણવાયુ (triprāṇvāyu) — O3
• Hebrew: אוזון (ozon) — O3
• Hindi: ओज़ोन (ozon) — O3
• Hungarian: ózon — O3
• Icelandic: óson — O3
• Ido: ozono — O3
• Indonesian: ozon — O3
• Inuktitut: ᐊᓂᕐᓂᖃᕐᓇᖅᑑᑉ ᖁᑦᓯᓐᓂᖓ (anirniqarnaqtoop qotsinninga) — O3
• Irish: ózón — O3
• Italian: ozono — O3
• Japanese: オゾン (ozon) — O3
• Kazakh: озон (ozon) — O3
• Khmer: អូហ្សូន (ʼouzoun) — O3
• Khmer: អូសូន (ʼousoun) — O3
• Korean: 오존 (ojon) — O3
• Lao: ໂອໂຊນ (ʼō sōn) — O3
• Latvian: ozons — O3
• Lithuanian: ozonas — O3
• Macedonian: озон (ozon) — O3
• Malay: ozon — O3
• Māori: hāora-toru — O3
• Norwegian Bokmål: ozon — O3
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ozon — O3
• Persian: ازن (ozon) — O3
• Piedmontese: oson — O3
• Polish: ozon — O3
• Portuguese: ozônio — O3
• Portuguese: ozono — O3
• Romanian: ozon — O3
• Russian: озо́н (ozón) — O3
• Scottish Gaelic: òson — O3
• Serbo-Croatian: озон — O3
• Serbo-Croatian: ozon — O3
• Slovak: ozón — O3
• Slovene: ozon — O3
• Spanish: ozono — O3
• Swahili: ozoni — O3
• Swedish: ozon — O3
• Tamil: சாரலியம் (cāraliyam) — O3
• Tamil: ஓசோன் (ōcōṉ) — O3
• Telugu: ఓజోన్ (ōjōn) — O3
• Thai: โอโซน (oh sohn) — O3
• Turkish: ozon — O3
• Ukrainian: озо́н (ozón) — O3
• Vietnamese: ozon — O3
• Volapük: lozon — O3
• Welsh: osôn — O3
• Yoruba: òsóònù — O3
• Greek: καθαρός αέρας (katharós aéras) — fresh air
• Russian: озо́н (ozón) — fresh air
• Russian: све́жий во́здух (svéžij vózdux) — fresh air