S vs Ozone - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O3) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
(from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone) Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
* 1875 , (William Crookes), The Chemical News ,
* 1888 , L. T. Meade, A. Balfour Symington, Edwin Oliver, , Volume 1,
* 2007 , Robert Douglas, Tales of the Unexpected'', ''Somewhere to Lay My Head ,
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a verb ozone is
.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}ozone
English
Noun
(wikipedia ozone) (-)page 99,
- A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone' by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ' ozone -baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.
page 674,
- To Ramsgate baths she sped, in quest / Of seaweed and ozone' ; / For seaweed and ' ozone were best, / They said, to give her tone.
unnumbered page,
- It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone , seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.