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Substances, combined with oxygen without being in the state of an acid. There are several oxides of the same substances, differing in the proportion of oxygen they contain. When a substance combines with only one proportion of oxygen, it is termed the protoxide: with two proportions of oxygen, it forms the deutoxide or binoxide; with three, the tritoxide or ter-oxide; and with four, the peroxide.
 
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