Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To convert into or become gas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To produce gas or an aëriform fluid from, or convert into gas, as by the application of heat, or other chemical process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state.
- transitive verb To convert into a gas, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To convert into
gas , or anaeriform fluid , as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb turn into gas
Etymologies
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Examples
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"This facility will use intense heat to gasify waste," Gorey said, but added that he could not share how much garbage will be handled.
Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant Susan Buchanan 2010
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"This facility will use intense heat to gasify waste," Gorey said, but added that he could not share how much garbage will be handled.
Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant Susan Buchanan 2010
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"This facility will use intense heat to gasify waste," Gorey said, but added that he could not share how much garbage will be handled.
Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant Susan Buchanan 2010
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The basic technology to gasify wood was developed during WWII by individuals who wanted to keep driving in the face of gasoline rationing, but it was always a finicky process, dependent on the time-consuming preparation of fuel into dry, one inch cubes of wood.
Kelpie Wilson: Hacking the Future -- Biochar 10-10-10 Global Work Party at All Power Labs Kelpie Wilson 2010
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As Peter Ford reports in the Monitor, China is manufacturing six times as many solar cells than the US, is selling the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid car, and is developing cutting-edge technologies to gasify coal.
Peter Bosshard: Will China Win the Clean Energy Race With the US? 2010
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When it is completed in 2012, it will be the largest power plant in the world to use advanced technology to gasify coal, strip out pollutants, and then burn that cleaner gas to produce power.
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Eli's first question was why don't you gasify the coal first?
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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You bag the liquefaction step and just gasify the coal into methane (saves you some money).
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Laurus Energy Inc. of Houston, which recently emerged from stealth mode and is backed by Mohr Davidow Ventures, also is aiming to gasify coal underground.
Power Plays 2009
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Well, if you have biomass and want a biofuel, you either hydrolyze and ferment it to produce ethanol, or gasify and catalyze it to make methanol.
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