Other forms: hydrogens
Hydrogen is the lightest element and the commonest in the universe. Hydrogen atoms, a hydrogen bond, hydrogen fuel.
It is element number one, a single proton with a single electron, and about three quarters of the ordinary matter in the universe is made of it. Stars burn it into helium. Hydrogen bonds hold water together and hold DNA in shape. As a fuel it burns to water and nothing else, which is the whole argument for it, and storing it is the whole difficulty. Note hydrogen peroxide, and the hydrogen bomb.
1nounhydrogenThe lightest element, and the commonest in the universe.
“About three quarters of ordinary matter is hydrogen.”
hydrogen is a chemical element.
French hydrogène was coined by Lavoisier from Greek hydor, water, plus genes, forming — the water-maker, because burning it produces water. Oxygen was named the acid-maker by the same chemist, and that one turned out to be wrong.
French
hydrogène
English, today
hydrogen
Borrowed from French hydrogène. Borrowed from French hydrogène (“hydrogen”), by the French chemists Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737–1816) and Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) from hydro- + -gène, from the fact that water is produced as a compound when hydrogen is oxidized.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA