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According to Hagenbach ( 203 ), Schoenbein did not hold that the 
oxygen molecule consisted of two atoms. Therefore, according to 
Schoenbein, the chemical polarization of neutral oxygen is no true 
decomposition, but only a calling into being of two oppositely active 
states of the element— 
(O)=© + 0 
The © combines with water to form H 2 0 2 , and the 0 goes partly to 
form ozone, but in greatest part to oxidize the metal or phosphorus. 
Like ozone, the ozonides were believed to contain a part of their 
oxygen in a negatively polarized condition, whereas the antozonides 
were supposed to contain a part of their oxygen in a positively polar- 
ized condition. Like ozone itself, the ozonides were supposed to con- 
tain a part of their oxygen in an intensely active condition. On the 
other hand, in antozone and the antozonides the antozonic oxygen 
was supposed to be less active chemically than the active oxygen in 
ozone and the ozonides, at least in most of its chemical relations, and 
to exhibit chemical activities of a different order. The following is 
a list of some of the common ozonides and antozonides included in 
this classification : 
o 2 .e , ozone. 
PbO.0, lead peroxide. 
MnO.0, manganese peroxide. 
HC1.0, hyp ochlor ous acid, 
etc. 
This view regarding the nature of ozone and antozone was appar- 
ently in harmony with a great many facts, among which may be 
mentioned : 
1 . Modes of formation from ordinary oxygen by the action of elec- 
tricity and as a result of the autoxidation of readily oxidizable sub- 
stances such as phosphorus, its production in the electrolysis of water 
and as the result of heating various oxides and peroxides and in the 
decomposition of highly oxygenated compounds by acids. 
2. The greater oxidizing power of ozone and the ozonides as com- 
pared with the oxidizing power of antozone and the antozonides. 
Thus it was proven by Schoenbein that ozone and the ozonides can 
accomplish the oxidation of a number of metals, guaiacum, etc., 
which are not acted upon by hydrogen peroxide or other antozonides. 
3. The mutual decomposition of ozone and the ozonides by anto- 
zonides resulting in the formation of ordinary oxygen. Such decom- 
sitions are those met with in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide 
by lead and manganese dioxides and by potassium permanganate, 
and also the remarkable decomposition of ozone itself by hydrogen 
peroxide, whereby water and ordinary oxygen are formed. 
©, antozone. 
H 2 0.©, hydrogen peroxide. 
BaO.©, barium peroxide, 
etc. 
