hydroxyl ion

1. 1.

   the anion OH having one oxygen and one hydrogen atom

   Synonymshydroxide ion

   Broaderanion

Questions about hydroxyl ion

What does hydroxyl ion mean?

hydroxyl ion means "the anion OH having one oxygen and one hydrogen atom".

What is another word for hydroxyl ion?

Close synonyms include hydroxide ion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydroxyl ion a common word?

hydroxyl ion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.