Definition of "oxides" []

• Plural form of oxide. (noun)

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• "The products are commonly referred to as oxides of nitrogen – NO, NO2 and are generally known as NOx."
• "The nitrogen oxides from the plant combustion may have to be scrubbed, but these can be handled."
• "Sherry and I decided to exchange information with the atmospheric sciences community: we went to Berkeley to confer with Professor Harold Johnston, whose work on the impact of the release of nitrogen oxides from the proposed supersonic transport (SST) aircraft on the stratospheric ozone layer was well known to us."