Chem. [f. (by Schönbein) ANT- + OZONE.] A gaseous product, supposed by Schönbein to be a permanently positive variety of oxygen, but subsequently shown to be hydrogen dioxide, H2O2 Hence Antozonide.
1862. Faraday, in Proc. R. Inst., 70. This substance he [Schönbein] names antozone, and believes that it also enters into combination, retaining, for the time, its special properties. Hence there is not merely ozone and antozone, but also ozonide and antozonide compounds.
1868. Dana, Min., 124. Its [Antozonite’s] strong antozone odour is said often to produce headache and vomiting in the miners.
