[shemtay]

@dang the article does not seem to imply that molecular oxygen was found. maybe retitle to "Oxygen element" or "Atomic oxygen"?

[elashri]

Oxygen is the name of the element. The usage of oxygen to describe the molecule that does have bonding of two oxygen atoms is the source of confusion not the reverse.

[shemtay]

If you peruse the comments here, quite a few people seem to have been confused on this point