superoxide anion

1. 1.

   the univalent anion O2-

   “much of the O2 supporting cellular respiration is reduced to the superoxide anion O2-”

   Synonymssuperoxide

   Broaderanion

Questions about superoxide anion

What does superoxide anion mean?

superoxide anion means "the univalent anion O2-".

What is another word for superoxide anion?

Close synonyms include superoxide. 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 superoxide anion a common word?

superoxide anion 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.