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Water with one extra oxygen and zero chill — it oxidizes first, asks questions never.
means A chemical compound containing an extra oxygen-oxygen bond, most familiarly the diluted hydrogen peroxide used to disinfect cuts or bleach hair.
from Built from 'per-' (meaning 'throughout' or 'to the max,' from Latin) plus 'oxide,' itself rooted in the French/Greek 'oxys' for 'sharp' or 'acid' — the same root that gives us oxygen. So peroxide literally means 'oxide taken to its fullest,' coined in the early 1800s by chemists classifying compounds with the highest proportion of oxygen they could pack in.
- hair use
- strips pigment by bleaching melanin, not adding color
- bubbling myth
- fizzes on wounds mostly, not on healthy skin
- rocket fuel
- concentrated form once powered actual rocket engines
- storage trick
- sold in dark bottles because light breaks it down