List of oxides facts for kids
This page is a list of all oxides. Oxides are chemical compounds containing oxygen in an oxidation state of -2.
Metal oxides
- Aluminium oxide, very hard, used as abrasive
- Antimony trioxide, white solid
- Antimony tetroxide, white solid
- Antimony pentoxide, yellow solid, oxidizing agent
- Arsenic trioxide, white solid, highly toxic
- Arsenic pentoxide, white solid, highly toxic, oxidizing agent
- Barium oxide, white, toxic, basic
- Bismuth(III) oxide, weak oxidizing agent, pale yellow
- Bismuth(V) oxide, very unstable, reddish
- Calcium oxide, white, quicklime
- Cerium(III) oxide, white
- Cerium(IV) oxide, strong oxidizing agent
- Chromium(II) oxide, black reducing agent
- Chromium(III) oxide, dark green
- Chromium(IV) oxide, black, artificial, used in cassettes
- Chromium(VI) oxide, red, toxic, oxidizing agent
- Cobalt(II) oxide, dark green, or black
- Cobalt(II,III) oxide, black
- Cobalt(III) oxide, black
- Copper(I) oxide, reddish
- Copper(II) oxide, black
- Iron(II) oxide, black, used as pigment
- Iron(II,III) oxide, black, ore of iron
- Iron(III) oxide, rust, reddish
- Lanthanum oxide, white
- Lead(II) oxide, orange, toxic
- Lead(II,IV) oxide, red, toxic
- Lead(IV) oxide, black, toxic, oxidizing agent, used in car batteries
- Lithium oxide, white, basic, used in ceramics
- Magnesium oxide, white, used in antacids
- Manganese(II) oxide, brown-pink
- Manganese(III) oxide, black, found in dead batteries
- Manganese(IV) oxide, black, oxidizing agent, used in alkaline batteries
- Manganese(VII) oxide, red oil, explosive
- Mercury(II) oxide, red, toxic, used in mercury batteries
- Nickel(II) oxide, light green
- Nickel(III) oxide, rare, oxidizing agent
- Rubidium oxide, yellowish, rare, highly reactive
- Silicon dioxide, colorless crystalline compound, very common in earth
- Silver(I) oxide, brown-black, used in silver oxide batteries
- Thallium(I) oxide, black, dissolves in water
- Thallium(III) oxide, white, oxidizing agent
- Thorium(IV) oxide, white, radioactive
- Tin(II) oxide, black or red, flammable
- Tin(IV) oxide, white, ore of tin
- Uranium(VI) oxide, yellow, toxic and radioactive
- Tungsten(VI) oxide, yellow
- Zinc oxide, white, used in sunscreen
Nonmetal oxides
- Bromine dioxide, yellow crystals, unstable
- Carbon dioxide, colorless heavy gas, exhaled by animals
- Carbon monoxide, colorless gas, toxic
- Chlorine dioxide, powerful oxidizing gas
- Dinitrogen tetroxide, colorless corrosive gas
- Dinitrogen pentoxide, anhydride of nitric acid
- Dihydrogen oxide, colorless liquid
- Iodine pentoxide, colorless solid, anhydride of iodic acid
- Nitric oxide, toxic gas, easily oxidized
- Nitrogen dioxide, toxic brown choking gas
- Nitrous oxide, sweet gas, used in whipping cream bottles and anesthetics
- Phosphorus(III) oxide, smells like garlic, toxic
- Phosphorus(V) oxide, absorbs water readily, white, irritating
- Selenium dioxide, white solid, has horseradish odor
- Selenium trioxide, very reactive solid
- Tellurium dioxide, most common tellurium compound, white or yellow solid
- Tellurium trioxide, highly reactive solid
- Sulfur dioxide, colorless heavy toxic gas, "burned" odor
- Sulfur trioxide, irritating toxic liquid
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