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Oxygen Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Feb 7 VMD (Exclusive) Stocks To Watch, PRO+ Edition
Nov 21 TDY Teledyne FLIR Defense to Deliver New Airborne Surveillance Systems to NL EASP AIR for Maritime Search & Rescue Operations
Nov 20 GTLS Pulsar Helium Agrees With NYSE's Chart Industries for Helium, CO2 Capture and Production
Nov 20 GTLS Pulsar Helium Signs Agreement With Chart Industries for Helium and CO2 Capture And Production
Nov 19 APD Mantle Ridge Nominates Slate of Directors at Air Products
Nov 19 APD Air Products Issues Statement
Nov 19 APD Market Chatter: Air Products and Chemicals Faces Board Challenge as Mantle Ridge Pushes for Change
Nov 19 APD Mantle Ridge confirms nominations for Air Products board; seeks CEO ouster
Nov 19 APD Exclusive-Mantle Ridge nominates new board for Air Products, pushes for new CEO
Nov 18 APD There Are Some Holes In Air Products and Chemicals' (NYSE:APD) Solid Earnings Release
Nov 18 APD Air Products nominates two for board following activist investor pressure
Nov 18 APD Do Options Traders Know Something About Air Products (APD) Stock We Don't?
Nov 18 APD Air Products And Chemicals: 2 Strategies For A Dividend Champion (Technical Analysis)
Nov 18 APD Air Products Announces Two New Independent Director Candidates as Part of Ongoing Board Refreshment
Nov 18 VLO Valero Energy's Third Quarter Highlights 2 Futures: Conventional And Renewable Energies
Nov 16 VLO Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO): A Bullish Investment Perspective
Nov 15 TDY Teledyne Controls' eADL XS Certified For Boeing 737NG Aircraft, Enhancing Data Security
Nov 15 VLO Is It Worth Investing in Valero Energy (VLO) Based on Wall Street's Bullish Views?
Nov 15 APD Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) Might Be Having Difficulty Using Its Capital Effectively
Nov 15 TDY Teledyne’s New Generation Onboard Secure Data Loader eADL XS™ Certified on Boeing 737NG Aircraft
Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds. By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. At standard temperature and pressure, two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen, a colorless and odorless diatomic gas with the formula O2. Diatomic oxygen gas constitutes 20.8% of the Earth's atmosphere. As compounds including oxides, the element makes up almost half of the Earth's crust.
Dioxygen is used in cellular respiration and many major classes of organic molecules in living organisms contain oxygen, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, as do the major constituent inorganic compounds of animal shells, teeth, and bone. Most of the mass of living organisms is oxygen as a component of water, the major constituent of lifeforms. Oxygen is continuously replenished in Earth's atmosphere by photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to produce oxygen from water and carbon dioxide. Oxygen is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms. Another form (allotrope) of oxygen, ozone (O3), strongly absorbs ultraviolet UVB radiation and the high-altitude ozone layer helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation. However, ozone present at the surface is a byproduct of smog and thus a pollutant.
Oxygen was isolated by Michael Sendivogius before 1604, but it is commonly believed that the element was discovered independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774. Priority is often given for Priestley because his work was published first. Priestley, however, called oxygen "dephlogisticated air", and did not recognize it as a chemical element. The name oxygen was coined in 1777 by Antoine Lavoisier, who first recognized oxygen as a chemical element and correctly characterized the role it plays in combustion.
Common uses of oxygen include production of steel, plastics and textiles, brazing, welding and cutting of steels and other metals, rocket propellant, oxygen therapy, and life support systems in aircraft, submarines, spaceflight and diving.

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