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Oxygen
Element 8, atomic weight 15.9994, a colorless, odourless gas that makes up about 1/5 of the earth's atmosphere and (in combined form) 8/9ths of earth's oceans and almost half of the earth's crust. The name is derived from the French oxygène, which means "acid generating".
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