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elashri 58 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known gala...

Oxygen is the name of the element. The usage of oxygen to describe the molecule that does have bonding of two oxygen atoms is the source of confusion not the reverse.

shemtay 58 days ago [–]

If you peruse the comments here, quite a few people seem to have been confused on this point

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