单词 | gasifiable |
释义 | gasifiableadj. Of a substance: capable of being converted (chemically or physically) into gas. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > [adjective] > able to be gasifiable1800 1800 R. Heron Elements Chem. vii. xxii. 368 Oxygen assimilates them [sc. metals] somewhat more to those gasifiable bodies from which their natural solidity so remarkably distinguishes them. 1843 Chemist 4 410/2 The rapidity of their [sc. manures'] action on vegetation is in direct ratio to the facility with which they yield to plants their soluble or gasifiable nitrogenous principles. 1880 Nature 21 8 But at present we know the molecular weights of gasifiable bodies only. 1932 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 4 432 As time, t, progresses arithmetically, the gasifiable material remaining..decreases logarithmically. 2007 R. Meyer et al. Explosives (ed. 6) 15 It [sc. ammonium nitrate] also serves as a totally gasifiable oxygen carrier in rocket propellants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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