Hypertext Webster Gateway: "superoxide"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Superoxide \Su`per*ox"ide\, n. (Chem.)
See {Peroxide}. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
superoxide
n 1: a metallic oxide containing the univalent anion O2-
2: the univalent anion O2-; "much of the O2 supporting cellular
respiration is reduced to the superoxide anion O2-" [syn:
{superoxide anion}]
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