Uses of oxygen gas are as follows:
- Inside the body, oxygen gas helps to produce energy reacting with glucose.
- Oxygen is used for cutting or welding metals. This work is done by oxy-acetylene flame or hydrogen flame.
- oxygen gas cylinder is used by mountaineers at high altitude. like climbing Mount Everest. and space.
- Oxygen is needed for surgical patients in the hospital.
- It is used to manufacture a wide range of chemicals including nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide.
- It is used to make epoxyethane (ethylene oxide), used as an antifreeze and to make polyester, and chloroethene, the precursor to PVC.
- It is used to make metals, such as copper, lead, and zinc.
- oxygen is used to enrich the air feed to catalytic cracking regenerators.
- oxygen is used in coal gasification that can be used as a chemical feedstock or precursor for more easily- transported and easily-used fuels.