Liquid oxygen

This article is about the liquid form of the element oxygen. For the commercial dietary supplement product, see Liquid Oxygen (supplement).
"LOX" redirects here. For other uses, see Lox (disambiguation).
Liquid oxygen (O2) (cyan liquid) in a beaker.
When liquid oxygen (O2) is poured from a beaker into a strong magnet, the oxygen is temporarily suspended between the magnet poles, owing to its paramagnetism.

Liquid oxygen, sometimes abbreviated as LOX or LOXygen, is a clear cyan liquid form of dioxygen O2. It was used as the oxidizer in the first liquid-fueled rocket invented in 1926 by Robert H. Goddard,[1] an application which has continued to the present.

  1. ^ "First liquid-fueled rocket". HISTORY. Retrieved 2019-03-16.