“oxy”
(greek for “sharp” (as in the taste of ‘acid’))
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“gen”
(greek for “begetter”)
-‘antoine lavoisier’ decided on this name because he mistakenly believed that oxygen was a constituent of all ‘acids’-
(‘mistakenly believed’?)
(when did we figure out it was a ‘mistake’?)
(time to change the name then!)
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