Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dioxide

Dioxide (?; 104) , noun

[Prefix di- + oxide.]

(a)
(Chemistry) An oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.
(b)
(Chemistry) An oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide. [Obsolete]
Collocations (1)
Carbon dioxide , See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.