Word Finder - gas

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Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.

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A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.

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• vapor / vapour

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A chemical element or compound in such a state.

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The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.

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A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.

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Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.

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A hob on a gas cooker.

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She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.

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Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.

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My tummy hurts so bad, I have gas.

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A humorous or entertaining event or person.

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He is such a gas!

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Frothy talk; chatter.

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A fastball.

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The closer threw him nothing but gas.

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Arterial or venous blood gas.

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Marijuana, typically of high quality.

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To kill with poisonous gas.

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To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.

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To impose upon by talking boastfully.

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To emit gas.

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The battery cell was gassing.

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To impregnate with gas.

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to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder

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To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

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to gas thread

At the gas station there were only two cars.

The gas contains a certain amount of hydrogen and oxides of carbon, also traces of nitrogen.

The city has railway shops and foundries, and manufactures furniture, carriages, tile, cigars and gas engines.

If you worry about gas emissions from cows contributing to climate change, lobby for a cow that doesn't have gas.

Brandon gave the car more gas and it straightened up, darting between the two vehicles.

Petroleum and natural gas also occur in the plateau rocks in great quantities.

He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

The gas gage registered three quarters of a tank.

That'll give you more gas than the Hindenberg, Dean said but he couldn't be sure he was heard over the din of music and vacuum.

She had tied the silk cord to the brass gas lamp at the ceiling in the center of the room, before knotting the other end about her soft white neck.

She didn't immediately notice the tall man watching her from the gas station.

Natural gas, piped from the Kansas fields, is used for light and power, and electricity for commercial lighting and power is derived from plants on Spring River, near Vark, Kansas, and on Shoal creek.

Ramsay, repeating these experiments, found that the inert gas emitted refused xIIl.

Early the next morn­ing, after showering, he walked around the corner to a gas station and from an outside payphone dialed Cece Baldwin.

A gas station that fixed flats, a few houses and the store – that was about it.

Much of the natural gas is piped out of the state into Ohio (even into the northern parts), Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Maryland; within the state gas has been utilized as a fuel in carbon black and glass factories.

In 1771 Thomas Jefferson described a " burning spring " in the Kanawha Valley, and when wells were drilled for salt brine near Charleston petroleum and natural gas were found here before there was any drilling for oil in Pennsylvania.

Jn 1841 natural gas was found with salt brine in a well on the Kanawha, and was used as a fuel to evaporate the salt water.

I spotted a gas station on a corner as we entered the city of Lynn but as we pulled closer, we saw the place was out of business.

I made my way back to the kitchen and turned on the gas stove burner for enough light to rummage through drawers until I located a box of wooden matches.

She talked about a friend in Chicago but gas was costing lots more than we thought and she was getting real tired from driving.

Certain difficulties that he met with in his speculations led him to the conclusion that the particles of any one kind of gas, though all of them alike, must differ from those of another gas both in size and weight.

Natural gas, like petroleum, was first heard of in West Virginia in connexion with a burning spring on the Kanawha, and there were gas springs on the Big Sandy and the Little Kanawha.

The glass industry began in Wheeling in 1821, and there a process was discovered by which in 1864 for soda ash bicarbonate of lime was substituted, and a lime glass was made which was as fine as lead glass; other factors contributing to the localization of the manufacture of glass here are the fine glass sand obtained in the state and the plentiful supply of natural gas for fuel Transportation and Commerce.

The gas is in all probability only mechanically retained in the minerals in which it is found.

With another form of gas stove coke is used in place of the perforated asbestos; the fire is started with the gas, which, when the coke is well alight, may be dispensed with, and the fire kept up with coke in the usual way.

I had let so much gas out of my balloon that I could not rise again, and in a few minutes the earth closed over my head.

I'm sure there's some lighter fluid around here but your grill is gas so you don't need it.

The silk cord was fastened to the brass gas lamp that centered the ceiling of the room, the other end tightly knotted about her soft white neck.

It was three miles before he came to a closed gas station, but there was a phone booth outside.

He could figure the gas he'd have used and written his own receipt when he filled up the motor home, stop­ping after filling the tank part way.

The electroscope was used in conjunction with an oil lamp or gas flame.

The gas also occurs in minute quantities in the common minerals of the earth's crust.

In the hot springs of Bath it amounts to about one-thousandth part of the gas evolved.

Cyanogen is a colourless gas, possessing a peculiar characteristic smell, and is very poisonous.

It is a colourless pungent gas which is exceedingly soluble in water.

For example, when metallic zinc is dissolved in dilute sulphuric acid with production of zinc sulphate (in solution) and hydrogen gas, a definite quantity of heat is produced for a given amount of zinc dissolved, provided that the excess of energy in the initial system appears entirely as heat.

Natural gas is found to consist mainly of the lower paraffins, with varying quantities of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, in some cases also sulphuretted hydrogen and possibly ammonia.

The important mineral products are salt, sulphur, petroleum and natural gas.

Rutherford, who showed that on removing oxygen from air a gas remained, which was incapable of supporting combustion or respiration.

The residual gas is then passed through a tube containing porous materials, such as woodor bone-charcoal, platinized pumice or spongy platinum, then mixed with steam and again forced through the tube.

A gas has neither size nor shape.

This on being washed and decomposed with hydrochloric acid yielded a stream of acetylene gas.

If, however, the gas be first passed through a scrubber so as to wash out the ammonia this danger is avoided.

The term is more customarily given to productions of flame such as we have in the burning of oils, gas, fuel, &c., but it is conveniently extended to other cases of oxidation, such as are met with when metals are heated for a long time in air or oxygen.

The outdoor space is lit with old gas lamps, has running fountains and is surrounded with palm and crepe myrtle trees.

Boron hydride has probably never been isolated in the pure condition; on heating boron trioxide with magnesium filings, a magnesium boride Mg 3 B 2 is obtained, and if this be decomposed with dilute hydrochloric acid a very evil-smelling gas, consisting of a mixture of hydrogen and boron hydride, is obtained.

This mixture burns with a green flame forming boron trioxide; whilst boron is deposited on passing the gas mixture through a hot tube, or on depressing a cold surface in the gas flame.

Hatfield obtained from it a gas of composition B3H3.

It rapidly absorbs the elements of water wherever possible, so that a strip of paper plunged into the gas is rapidly charred.