Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chimney gas; waste gas; a product of combustion which is given off from a fire or process and is to be removed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun manufacturing
Gas produced as aside effect of achemical reaction , sometimeshazardous . - verb To emit gases, especially
noxious ones.
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Examples
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We must begin to hope that Knauf will continue this pilot program, a first for a drywall company, with the admission that the corrosive levels of hydrogen sulfide created a toxic plume off-gas that smelled like rotten eggs.
Robin Wilson: U.S. Families Get Help With Pilot Program For Chinese Drywall Remediation Robin Wilson 2011
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We must begin to hope that Knauf will continue this pilot program, a first for a drywall company, with the admission that the corrosive levels of hydrogen sulfide created a toxic plume off-gas that smelled like rotten eggs.
Robin Wilson: U.S. Families Get Help With Pilot Program For Chinese Drywall Remediation Robin Wilson 2011
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According to the recall notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the solar inverters—which convert solar photovoltaic voltages into utility grid voltages—contain components that can off-gas as they degrade.
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We had our basement in Seattle tested right after, and were already at 0.4 pCi/L. Building tightly sealed houses has been seen as a danger in recent years, I thought, even with super-green materials that omit formaldehyde, and off-gas relatively little.
Passive Aggressive: “Passive” Home Construction Comes to Seattle « PubliCola 2010
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In reality, it's a veritable toxic soup of chemical additives just waiting to off-gas into your baby's developing body.
Sloan Barnett: Forget Monsters Under the Bed, What About the Monsters Hiding in Your Mattress? Sloan Barnett 2011
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In reality, it's a veritable toxic soup of chemical additives just waiting to off-gas into your baby's developing body.
Sloan Barnett: Forget Monsters Under the Bed, What About the Monsters Hiding in Your Mattress? Sloan Barnett 2011
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This drywall has a higher than typical density and a higher propensity to off-gas sulfur compounds.
Tony McNulty ’second home’ shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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I don't care if you are a 95-pound beauty queen, a prim and proper grandma, or a guy wearing a "Farting is just another way to say I love you" T-shirt, at some point in time you've been on a plane and felt the urge to off-gas a bit.
Kelsey Timmerman: I smuggled Anti-flatulence Underwear Past TSA Kelsey Timmerman 2010
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I don't care if you are a 95-pound beauty queen, a prim and proper grandma, or a guy wearing a "Farting is just another way to say I love you" T-shirt, at some point in time you've been on a plane and felt the urge to off-gas a bit.
Kelsey Timmerman: I smuggled Anti-flatulence Underwear Past TSA Kelsey Timmerman 2010
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I don't care if you are a 95-pound beauty queen, a prim and proper grandma, or a guy wearing a "Farting is just another way to say I love you" T-shirt, at some point in time you've been on a plane and felt the urge to off-gas a bit.
Kelsey Timmerman: I smuggled Anti-flatulence Underwear Past TSA Kelsey Timmerman 2010
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