The trouble is, it can be genuinely hard to figure out how to direct your money wisely if you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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On the surface, it’s a triangular tussle involving Turkey, Greece and Cyprus over potentially giant gas reserves deep under the Mediterranean Sea.
Butterfly Effect: The Next U.S.-Russia Conflict Theater Could be the Mediterranean|Charu Kasturi|September 17, 2020|Ozy
The gas is produced by microbes here on Earth, and after most known nonbiological processes were ruled out, the discovery has renewed hopes that there’s life on Venus.
We need to go to Venus as soon as possible|Neel Patel|September 16, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Security officials told Agence France-Presse that the gas station manager said he had recognized the two men.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Unconfirmed reports in the French media claimed that the brothers were spotted at a gas station in northern France on Thursday.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
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We have no heating; there is no gas and it is very cold inside the prison.
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It was from a former Railroad Commission employee who had gone to work for an oil and gas developer.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nevertheless, he regretted the very smell of the gas and the noise of the omnibuses.
Sentimental Education Vol 1|Gustave Flaubert
You can—this heap has got the legs of a centipede and you've got plenty of gas and oil.
Triplanetary|Edward Elmer Smith
Suspended from the gas pipe, which was bent and leaking, was Don Roberto.
The Californians|Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Of these he covered just about two, and even that ground was only what he gained in the first surprise of his gas attack.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy|Paul Jones.
The gauge is attached to the gas burner and the pressure is read by means of a scale attached to the gauge.
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British Dictionary definitions for gas
gas
/ (ɡæs) /
nounpluralgasesorgasses
a substance in a physical state in which it does not resist change of shape and will expand indefinitely to fill any container. If very high pressure is applied a gas may become liquid or solid, otherwise its density tends towards that of the condensed phaseCompare liquid (def. 1), solid (def. 1)
any substance that is gaseous at room temperature and atmospheric pressure
any gaseous substance that is above its critical temperature and therefore not liquefiable by pressure aloneCompare vapour (def. 2)
a fossil fuel in the form of a gas, used as a source of domestic and industrial heatSee also coal gas, natural gas
(as modifier)a gas cooker; gas fire
a gaseous anaesthetic, such as nitrous oxide
miningfiredamp or the explosive mixture of firedamp and air
the usual US, Canadian, and New Zealand word for petrol See also gasoline
step on the gasinformal
to increase the speed of a motor vehicle; accelerate
to hurry
a toxic or suffocating substance in suspension in air used against an enemy
informalidle talk or boasting
slanga delightful or successful person or thinghis latest record is a gas
US an informal name for flatus
verbgases, gasses, gassingorgassed
(tr)to provide or fill with gas
(tr)to subject to gas fumes, esp so as to asphyxiate or render unconscious
(intr)to give off gas, as in the charging of a battery
(tr)(in textiles) to singe (fabric) with a flame from a gas burner to remove unwanted fibres
(intr foll by to) informalto talk in an idle or boastful way (to a person)
(tr)slang, mainlyUS and Canadianto thrill or delight
Derived forms of gas
gasless, adjective
Word Origin for gas
C17 (coined by J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), Flemish chemist): modification of Greek khaos atmosphere
In physics, one of the phases of matter. The atoms or molecules in gases are more widely spaced than in solids or liquids and suffer only occasional collisions with one another.
The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by relatively low density and viscosity, relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature, the ability to diffuse readily, and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container.
A substance in the gaseous state.
A gaseous fuel, such as natural gas.
Gasoline.
A gaseous asphyxiant, an irritant, or a poison.
A gaseous anesthetic, such as nitrous oxide.
Flatulence.
Flatus.
v.
To treat chemically with gas.
To overcome, disable, or kill with poisonous fumes.
One of four main states of matter, composed of molecules in constant random motion. Unlike a solid, a gas has no fixed shape and will take on the shape of the space available. Unlike a liquid, the intermolecular forces are very small; it has no fixed volume and will expand to fill the space available.