Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun liquid_oxygen

1 sense of liquid oxygen

Sense 1
liquid oxygen, LOX -- (a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants)
       => oxygen, O, atomic number 8 -- (a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust)