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Is oxygen an atom or element?

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This is not a question of being “either this or that”. Any element is a substance that is made of atoms. But it is imprecise to write that an element such as oxygen (which is abundant enough to sustain life at the Earth's surface) is an atom. read more

Oxygen gas is an element. Any substance with a single type of atom is an element. Any substance with a single type of molecule, each of which consists of two or more different atoms is a compound. And any substance with two or types of molecules is a mixture. read more

Splitting an atom creates different elements (split an oxygen atom and you don't have oxygen any longer). Splitting a scoop of ice cream results in smaller blobs of the same flavor. For the analogy to hold true, the flavor of the ice cream would have to change when you split a scoop (the chocolate 'element' would have to change into some other 'element' (flavor)). read more

Oxygen is the name of an element -- atomic number 8, symbol O. Each atom of oxygen contains 8 protons and 8 electrons. Oxygen readily forms compounds with one or more elements because its chemical reactivity allows its atoms to form molecules with one or more other kinds of atoms. read more

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