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GASEOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Existing as or having characteristics of a gas
Example:
steam is water is the gaseous state
Classified under:
Similar:
aeriform; airlike (resembling air or having the form of air)
aerosolised; aerosolized (in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas)
evaporated (drawn off in the form of vapor)
gasified; vaporized; vapourised; volatilised; volatilized (converted into a gas or vapor)
gassy (resembling gas)
vaporific; vaporish; vaporous; vapourific; vapourish; vapourous (resembling or characteristic of vapor)
Attribute:
state; state of matter ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container))
Antonym:
liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)
solid (of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous)
Derivation:
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)
gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)
gaseousness (having the consistency of a gas)
Context examples:
The observations represent the first time that so-called heavy metals—elements heavier than hydrogen and helium—have been spotted escaping from a hot Jupiter, a large, gaseous exoplanet very close to its star.
(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)
However, Kepler-1625b and its possible satellite are gaseous and not rocky, so the moon may have formed through a different process.
(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)
The existing understanding of planetary formation, the team explained, says small stars can produce rocky planets but cannot not pull in enough mass for larger, gaseous ones like NGTS-1b.
(Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet, Wikinews)
A chromatographic technique in which the stationary phase is solid while the mobile phase is gaseous samples.
(Gas Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)
A fluorinated hydrocarbon and gaseous substance used as an imaging contrast agent in echocardiogram.
(Perflexane, NCI Thesaurus)
Colorless, odorless, flammable, toxic gaseous cyclic ether with a sweet ether-like smell.
(Ethylene oxide, NCI Thesaurus)
Specifically, they discovered that the exoplanets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, approximately 40 light-years away, are unlikely to have puffy, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres usually found on gaseous worlds.
(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)
C. bifermentans is found in cases of gaseous gangrene and in rotting meat.
(Clostridium bifermentans, NCI Thesaurus)
A gaseous element with atomic symbol He, atomic number 2, and atomic weight 4.00.
(Helium, NCI Thesaurus)
In an anesthesia machine, the pathway by which a gaseous anesthetic agent and oxygen are delivered to the patient and carbon dioxide is removed.
(Breathing Circuit Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
