Gas
Meanings and phrases
gas
- 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; gaseous state
- a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
- a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines; gasoline; gasolene; petrol
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve; accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas pedal; throttle; gun
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal; flatulence; flatulency
- a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes; natural gas
gas
- attack with gas; subject to gas fumes
- show off; boast; tout; swash; shoot a line; brag; blow; bluster; vaunt; gasconade
CN gas
- a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer; chloroacetophenone
CS gas
- a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema; chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile
VX gas
- a highly lethal nerve agent used in chemical warfare; a toxic liquid that penetrates the skin or lungs to disrupt the nervous system and stop respiration; in combat VX gas is deployed by detonating a container over the target area and can persist in the environment up to several weeks after release
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- a gas made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen and nitrogen; made by passing air over hot coke; producer gas
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- hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure; liquefied petroleum gas
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- an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon; carbon monoxide; CO
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- a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis; carbon dioxide; CO2
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- gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting
- He then adapted the gazomètre for coal gas storage.
- The 1860s were the golden age of coal gas development.
- He found that sulfuric acid could absorb large volumes of coal gas.
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- a bomb laden with chemical agents that are released when the bomb explodes; chemical bomb
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- instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals; death chamber
- There, she selected prisoners for the gas chamber.
- The gas chamber and crematorium were reconstructed after the war.
- The first gas chamber at Auschwitz II was operational by March 1942.
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- a public utility that provides gas; gas service
- He helped organize the city's first gas company.
- An Australian oil and gas company, Woodside Petroleum, is named after this area.
- Dana Energy Dana Energy () is a private oil and gas company headquartered in Tehran, Iran.
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- (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole; universal gas constant; R
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- obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving; air embolism; aeroembolism
- pain resulting from rapid change in pressure; decompression sickness; aeroembolism; air embolism; caisson disease; bends
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- an internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor
- The gas engine is with 140 hp at 1700 rpm or 163 hp at 2000 rpm.
- One of the buses uses a modified petrol-engine and the other uses a modified natural gas engine.
- The Tiba has a 4-cylinder gas engine and ABS, averages 7 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers and puts out with a displacement of 1,500 cc.
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- the fitting (pipes or valves or meters) that convey gas from the gas main to the gas fixtures of a building
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- gauge that indicates the amount of gasoline left in the gasoline tank of a vehicle; gasoline gauge; gasoline gage; gas gauge; petrol gauge; petrol gage
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- (pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used as a bioweapon; clostridial myonecrosis; emphysematous gangrene; emphysematous phlegmon; gangrenous emphysema; gas phlegmon; progressive emphysematous necrosis
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- gauge that indicates the amount of gasoline left in the gasoline tank of a vehicle; gasoline gauge; gasoline gage; gas gage; petrol gauge; petrol gage
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- any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter); Jovian planet
- This is the ratio found in the gas giant planets, such as Jupiter.
- Mu Arae e is a gas giant at least 1.8 times as massive as Jupiter.
- The star is orbited by a gas giant, HD 132406 b, discovered in 2007.
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- a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases; gasmask; respirator
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- a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel; gasometer
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- a pipe that carries gasoline from a tank to a gasoline engine; fuel line; petrol line
- a queue of vehicles waiting to purchase gasoline
- a pipeline used to transport natural gas
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- the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned; mileage; fuel consumption rate; gasoline mileage
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- an oil formed through distillation of petroleum of intermediate boiling range and viscosity
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- a pedal that controls the throttle valve; accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas; throttle; gun
gas phlegmon
- (pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used as a bioweapon; gas gangrene; clostridial myonecrosis; emphysematous gangrene; emphysematous phlegmon; gangrenous emphysema; progressive emphysematous necrosis
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- Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather; fraxinella; dittany; burning bush; Dictamnus alba
- In addition to the natural gas plant, there is a 1 MW solar farm on site.
- These sounds lead to one man thinking that a nearby gas plant had exploded.
- McGuinty changed his mind however, and resigned on June 12 amid the "gas plant scandal".
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- the pressure exerted by a gas
- Pulleys and weights were supplied to regulate the gas pressure.
- The gas pressure can make a flexible suit very rigid, like an inflated balloon.
- Comets are suspected of splitting due to thermal stress, internal gas pressure, or impact.
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- a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks; gasoline pump; petrol pump; island dispenser
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- gas burner consisting of a circular metal pipe with several small holes through which gas can escape to be burned
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- (military) bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes
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- a service station that sells gasoline; gasoline station; filling station; petrol station
- They shoot past Delia, Maxine and Gordo at a gas station.
- His first job was pumping gas at a York Mills gas station.
- 1915 Trading Post and gas station built next to tollhouse.
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- facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service
- Besides storing the gas, the tank's design serves to establish the pressure of the gas system.
- Instead of the previous liquid-based cooling design, a simpler and more reliable gas system was installed.
- The AK-47 uses a long stroke gas system that is generally associated with great reliability in adverse conditions.
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- a tank for holding gasoline to supply a vehicle; gasoline tank; petrol tank
- The sniper shoots the flipped vehicle's gas tank.
- Until then, propane gas was delivered in pressurized gas tank cars.
- Briggs hides a bag of cocaine in the gas tank of Hurley's motorcycle.
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- thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the pressure of a gas kept at constant volume; air thermometer
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- turbine that converts the chemical energy of a liquid fuel into mechanical energy by internal combustion; gaseous products of the fuel (which is burned in compressed air) are expanded through a turbine
- The gas turbine was a Brown Boveri industrial machine.
- Armstrong Siddeley gas turbine engines were named after snakes.
- The GT26B gas turbine burns a mixture of compressed air and gas.
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- a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation; greenhouse emission
- The major challenge is the greenhouse gas emissions.
- Coal mining can emit methane, another greenhouse gas.
- It is also a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon-dioxide.
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- a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces; perfect gas
- In contrast, free expansion is an isothermal process for an ideal gas.
- From the ideal gas equation one also knows where formula_8 is Boltzmann's constant.
- The ideal gas thermometer is, however, not theoretically perfect for thermodynamics.
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- any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table; noble gas; argonon
- It can be handled only under inert gas, such as argon.
- Argon may be used as the inert gas within Schlenk lines and gloveboxes.
- Minimising the inert gas loading of the diver's tissues for a given dive profile reduces the decompression obligation.
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- a rarefied flow of gas and charged particles (plasma) that stream from the sun and form the solar wind
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- hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure; bottled gas
- Canada has of pipeline for transportation of crude and refined oil, and for liquefied petroleum gas.
- A tank car containing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded as a result of cleanup related to this derailment.
- The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both.
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- a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote; mustard agent; blistering agent; dichloroethyl sulfide; sulfur mustard
- Despite being affected by a mustard gas attack, he also survived the war.
- Ethylene can be used in production of sulfur mustard gas, a chemical weapon.
- Some mustard gas escaped as a vapour and much of the nearby vegetation was killed.
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- a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes; gas
- They are fueled by either natural gas or fuel oil.
- Proved reserves of natural gas amount to 5.663 bln.
- Oil and natural gas account for almost all exports.
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- a toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system; nerve agent
- Liu fires nerve gas at the guards, killing all of them, and frees Mathilda.
- Various chemical agents are a threat, such as nerve gas (VX, Sarin, and so on.).
- Price is contacted by CIA agent Kate Laswell about the Russian nerve gas crisis.
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- any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table; inert gas; argonon
- It is in group 18 of the periodic table and is a noble gas.
- Hale–Bopp was the first comet where the noble gas argon was detected.
- Each H atom now has the noble gas electron configuration of helium (He).
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- a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces; ideal gas
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- a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare
- She was scuttled in 1946 with a load of poison gas shells.
- When the room was full, Vrban brought poison gas and killed them all.
- She was loaded with poison gas shells and scuttled in the Skagerrak in 1946.
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- a gas made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen and nitrogen; made by passing air over hot coke; air gas
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- a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds; teargas; lacrimator; lachrymator
- Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and live ammunition.
- The bombardment included phosgene and tear gas.
- Riot police fired tear gas in response.
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- (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole; gas constant; R
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- a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with small amounts of other gases; made by blowing steam over hot coke or coal
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- It provides services to the oil and gas industry.
- South Moravia has small oil and gas deposits.
- He supports tapping into off-shore oil and gas supplies.
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- The major challenge is the greenhouse gas emissions.
- These explosions produced gas emissions and volcanic ash.
- Graven studies greenhouse gas emissions.
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- The major challenge is the greenhouse gas emissions.
- Graven studies greenhouse gas emissions.
- The UN recognised carbon trading as mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
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- The delegation also visited the Hassi R’mel gas field.
- The discovery of the Lacq gas field restored a certain dynamism.
- Statoil own 36% of the Corrib gas field, off Ireland's west coast.
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- There are no stores or gas stations inside the park.
- In Lithuania Statoil operates a chain of gas stations.
- , Iran has 3,200 gas stations for 15 million automobiles.
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- It provides services to the oil and gas industry.
- The explosion also had a long-range impact on the natural gas industry.
- The gas industry was a large employer of clerks, mainly male before the war.
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- Also transacting the property is a natural gas pipeline.
- On August 19, 2006, a Tabriz–Ankara gas pipeline exploded in the province.
- Eastern Gas Pipeline The Eastern Gas Pipeline (EGP) is a natural gas pipeline.
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- Natural gas production halted in the late 1990s.
- Natural gas production was introduced in 1971.
- In 1999, Brunei's natural gas production reached 90 cargoes per day.
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- For this purpose barracks were built as gas chambers.
- The remaining survivors were sent to the gas chambers.
- I installed shower heads in the gas chambers.
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- He also worked on atomic-powered gas turbines.
- Removing the gas turbines restricted the top speed to .
- More recently, gas turbines have been used.
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- It can react with water to produce flammable hydrogen gas.
- For the fuel cell to operate, the fuel must be converted into pure hydrogen gas.
- The hydrogen gas was to be generated by chemical reaction during the filling process.
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- Seven natural gas fields were tapped in the province.
- From there, he took up work in the village's major gas fields.
- It has developed wealth from extensive petroleum and natural gas fields.
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- It was China's biggest investment in shale gas to date.
- Combustible shale gas is burned in the ball heater to reheat the ceramic balls.
- The annual shale oil production is 135,000 tonnes and oil shale gas production is .
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- In the gas phase, alcohols are more acidic than in water.
- The reaction took place in the gas phase.
- Dilithium (Li) and disodium (Na) are known in the gas phase.
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- The region also supports oil and gas exploration and production.
- Brunei is preparing to tender concessions for deep water oil and gas exploration.
- The company phased out gas exploration and related products and phased in data systems.
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- As of April 2018, Malawi has no proven oil and/or gas reserves.
- Notable gas reserves were discovered in the 1883 near Medicine Hat.
- Delek discovered offshore natural gas reserves in Israel and Cyprus.
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- Both offer electric power and natural gas supply.
- Natural gas supply has been established in 39 settlements.
- There is no sewerage service or mains gas supply to the hamlet.
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- These are generally failures affecting breathing gas supply and buoyancy.
- A high proportion of scuba accidents involve running out of breathing gas.
- For a scuba diver, loss of breathing gas and buoyancy together can be deadly.
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- It also is the ninth-largest producer of liquefied natural gas in the world.
- Audi has constructed a carbon-neutral liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Werlte, Germany.
- The plane uses a fuel referred to as liquefied natural gas or LNG, and made its first flight in 1989.
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- However, the mother's body does provide gas exchange.
- They have respiratory trees for gas exchange.
- They supplement this with gas exchange through the skin.
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- Using a hose, the cabin was filled with exhaust gas.
- The main engines are also equipped with exhaust gas economizers.
- This increases exhaust gas flow.
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- In 1938 the CCC built a gas and oil house.
- Underneath the earth surface are pools of natural gas and oil.
- The most important commercial sources for alkanes are natural gas and oil.
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- In 1841 the theatre was fitted with gas lighting.
- By this era, gas lighting became accepted.
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- The soldiers dress in black uniforms and wear black, dog-themed gas masks.
- They were also given gas masks and ID cards, which were carried at all times.
- On public appearances, they have been dressed in white protective suits and gas masks.
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- Her first company began to lose profits when gas prices fell several years later.
- Ridership as of September 2008 had grown to 1,045,000 due in part to high gas prices.
- In 2017, the shares of PetroChina upped after the rise of natural gas prices for commercial use.
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- He became a businessman, especially in tanning, building societies and gas companies.
- By 1995, the Calgary Challenge had mushroomed to include 25 workplaces, primarily oil and gas companies.
- The government hopes Luba will become a major transportation hub for offshore oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Guinea.
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- In some binaries similar to Algol, a gas flow can be seen.
- In 2009, gas flow was declined from per day at standard conditions.
- This increases exhaust gas flow.
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- Also transacting the property is a natural gas pipeline.
- Eastern Gas Pipeline The Eastern Gas Pipeline (EGP) is a natural gas pipeline.
- The pipes were for a long natural gas pipeline and included of material in about a dozen ships.
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- This flue gas stack briefly was the tallest in the world.
- Typically, the dominant loss is sensible heat leaving with the offgas (i.e., the flue gas).
- The power plant has a tall flue gas stack, the tallest structure in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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- The NTS now comprises over 7,600 km of welded steel gas pipelines.
- , there have been 15 bombings on these gas pipelines since the 2011 uprising.
- , 15 such attacks were perpetrated on these gas pipelines since the 2011 uprising.
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- Much coal for the gas works was shipped by sea and was vulnerable to enemy attack.
- This term became used to label gas works, where there usually are several gas holders.
- By the end of the century, most towns in Britain had their own gas works and gas holders.
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- Canada has of pipeline for transportation of crude and refined oil, and for liquefied petroleum gas.
- Nearby residents stated that they thought the explosion was caused by exploding liquid petroleum gas.
- A tank car containing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded as a result of cleanup related to this derailment.
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- Greengairs has 6000m of pipes with biogas fed by 90 gas wells.
- Mehsana also has 1,311 oil wells, and 16 gas wells producing 6,000 tonnes per day.
- In 2006, there were 13,473 successful natural gas wells drilled in Alberta: 12,029 conventional gas wells and 1,444 coalbed methane wells.
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- It is prepared from reaction of chlorine gas with tin at .
- The bombs were filled with chlorine gas and possibly sarin.
- The agents included chlorine gas and organophosphorous pesticide.
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- Mother War is the woman in the Victorian-era gown and gas mask.
- Garrett A. Morgan developed the first automatic traffic signal and gas mask.
- His former student James Bert Garner at Wabash College went on to invent the gas mask.
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- Highest rates of AOM usually over methane gas seeps.
- The spring water is rich with sulfur and methane gas.
- The book describes the mysterious power of methane gas.
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- Subsequently, a gas explosion blinded him in one eye.
- Initially, the fire was thought to have been caused by a gas explosion.
- May was killed off on 18 June 2008 when she causes a gas explosion at the Miller's house.
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- He witnessed there the victims of gas attack.
- the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway).
- Six weeks later they were beating off a German gas attack in Flanders.
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- He makes a bomb and plants it in a mining site with a massive gas leak.
- A recent chlorine gas leak in Pune, India, landed 20 individuals in the hospital.
- Well into their drive, Holt smells a gas leak and the group exits shortly before the RV explodes.
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- The cleaned hot gas returns to the oil shale dryer.
- The galaxy contains vast amounts of hot gas.
- This prevents the leakage of hot gas which could injure the shooter.
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- He then adapted the gazomètre for coal gas storage.
- The gas storage uses a depleted gas reservoir.
- The gas storage started officially operating on 24 May 2007.
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- The gas generator was designed using experience from the D-36 turbofan.
- The missile has six motors; the first one is the motor in the gas generator.
- The PBPS provides propulsion using a solid-propellant nitrogen gas generator.
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- In efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists treat palm oil mill effluent to extract biogas.
- Wood thought this could be accomplished by making treaties with other nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- The goals of the EU are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their dependency on other nations for fossil fuels.
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- Occasionally the CO gas is blended with nitrogen gas.
- The PBPS provides propulsion using a solid-propellant nitrogen gas generator.
- The inert atmosphere used may be argon or nitrogen gas, except for lithium, which reacts with nitrogen.
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- The "Columbia" is powered by compressed natural gas (GNG), unlike the biodiesel-powered "Mark Twain".
- The company commits to transitioning its Pennsylvania vehicle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG) within five years.
- New York has the largest clean-air diesel-hybrid and compressed natural gas bus fleet in the country, and some of the first hybrid taxis.
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- The inner structure is surrounded by a translucent shroud of gas and dust.
- These streams of gas and dust can cause the nucleus to spin, and even split apart.
- It is currently in the G-cloud—a nearby interstellar cloud, an accumulation of gas and dust.
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- NTS is the starting point for UK gas distribution.
- He then worked for his father’s oil and gas distribution company.
- Vištuk has centralized water and gas distribution, but not a sewage system.
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- Delek discovered offshore natural gas reserves in Israel and Cyprus.
- Bolivia has the second largest natural gas reserves in South America.
- Recently, Cambodia has reported that oil and natural gas reserves have been found off-shore.
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- It benefits greatly from the natural gas field of Lacq to which it is connected by pipeline.
- As part of the activities to prepare the Ormen Lange natural gas field, the incident has been thoroughly investigated.
- The airfield was named the 1925 Sweeney Airport then the 1928 Fairfax Airport—the latter had a natural gas field with 14 wells for extra revenue.
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- These fragments can be separated by gas chromatography.
- She remained active in gas chromatography until almost the end of life.
- He has recently extended this to a highly precise method of "reactive gas chromatography".
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- Temperatures of gas giants reduce over time and with distance from their star.
- The rings of the Solar System's gas giants are aligned with their planet's equator.
- His specific claims of large gas giants were refuted in the mid-1970s after much debate.
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- It also has oil rigs and natural gas extraction in the eastern plains.
- In recent years, petroleum and natural gas extraction have become an important industry.
- In 2007 there were 146,900 people working in the mining and oil and gas extraction industry.
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- Apartment rents were between $74 and $108 per month, which included gas and electricity.
- Australian Gas Light Company The Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) was an Australian gas and electricity retailer.
- In 1979, a second wave of price increases began, for energy: prices for petrol, natural gas and electricity were increased.
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- In 1999, Brunei's natural gas production reached 90 cargoes per day.
- Crude oil and natural gas production account for about 90% of its GDP.
- RWE DEA had total natural gas production output of 2.6bn cubic metres in 2013.
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- The gas mixture produced by this process is known as wood gas.
- As the gas mixture flowed and mixed with air and sewer gas, the mixture ignited.
- Nitrox Nitrox refers to any gas mixture composed (excepting trace gases) of nitrogen and oxygen.
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- Until 1975, the site was further used for gas processing before the plant was shut down.
- A gas processing facility of per day at standard conditions was installed at Qadirpur during 2006-7.
- In 2016 the Oben gas processing facility was expanded with the installation of additional processing modules.
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- The mirror jiggles from Brownian motion due to collisions with the gas molecules.
- For example, the entropy of an ideal gas is proportional to the number of gas molecules .
- Molecular ions are accelerated to high kinetic energy and then collide with neutral gas molecules (e.g.
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- The soldiers fired rubber bullets, CS gas and water cannon.
- The city owns its power, gas and water, and cable TV service.
- When recovering oil from tiny pores, it is useful to inject gas and water into the pore.
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- The ideal gas law states: where "n" is the number of moles of gas and is the gas constant.
- Thus the ideal gas law states that internal energy is directly proportional to temperature.
- The ideal gas law allows one to measure temperature on this absolute scale using the gas thermometer.
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- At sea level, air is denser and there are more molecules of gas per litre of air.
- Shah Deniz is expected to produce up to 296 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.
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- The meter used to measure the flow of gas through a particular pipe is a gas meter.
- This method involved heating silicon and oxygen by running silicon tetrachloride gas through an oxygen flame.
- The mercury, is then swept into a long-pass absorption tube by bubbling a stream of inert gas through the reaction mixture.
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- Equipment is installed to scrub these from the gas stream before passing to the atmosphere.
- The most common heat exchanger consists of chains hanging in curtains across the gas stream.
- The amount of air mixed with the gas stream affects the completeness of the combustion reaction.
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- The first gas, water, and power plants were built.
- He helped organize the city's first gas company.
- In 1964 the first gas was injected.