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gaseous
/ˈɡæsiəs/
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What does gaseous mean?
adjective
- Relating to, or existing as gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma).
- Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy.
- Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
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This is obviously true if they are gaseous or fluid, and even solid matter becomes plastic under sufficiently great stresses.
The gaseous HCl is passed into towers containing falling water in a fine spray, for which it has great affinity.
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There are three factors at work in this process, mechanical, gaseous and absorptive, the last named being infinitely the most pernicious.
It throws up asphaltum, and is said to emit gaseous emanations, which ignite spontaneously, and are seen at a great distance.
“None whatever,” said Barbicane, “and the proof is, that the moon has preserved no trace of the gaseous envelope which always accompanies comets.”