what is pentoxido

Question

I'm reading something about oxidation and was wondering what pentóxido is?

Answer 1

Sounds like a continuation along the line of monoxide, dioxide etc . Seems like a pentoxide would be more along the line of a radical. Seeing the whole sentence might help but I think your question would be clearer in a chemistry book than a linguistic forum. I ,too, am far from the years of studying chemistry.

Answer 2

Welcome to the Forum. Be sure to come back often with other good questions.

I couldn't find it here in our Dictionary, but I did find several hits on Google.

It's a chemical formula of some kind, and because it's been a very long time since I had chemistry, you'd best check it out yourself via Google.

Buena suerte!

Answer 3

Basically it´s a molecule that contains 5 oxygens:

pentoxide (plural pentoxides)

1. (chemistry) any oxide containing five oxygen atoms in each molecule

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