| 释义 |
water gas
noun
: a poisonous flammable gaseous mixture made principally of carbon monoxide and hydrogen with small amounts of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen and usually by blowing air and then steam over red-hot coke or coal, used especially formerly as a fuel (as in welding) and after carbureting as an illuminant but chiefly as a source of hydrogen and as a synthesis gas — see blue gas, carbureted water gas |