Definition of Gases

1. gas [v] - See also: gas

Medical Definition of Gases

1. The vapor state of matter; nonelastic fluids in which the molecules are in free movement and their mean positions far apart. Gases tend to expand indefinitely, to diffuse and mix readily with other gases, to have definite relations of volume, temperature, and pressure, and to condense or liquefy at low temperatures or under sufficient pressure. (12 Dec 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gases

gasconading
gascons
Gascony
gaseities
gaseity
gaselier
gaseliers
gaseous
gaseous
gaseousness
gaseousnesses
gaseous mediastinography
gaseous nebula
gaseous pulse
gases (current term)
gases (current term)
gasfield
gasfields
gash
gashed
gasher
Gasherbrum
gashes
gashest
gashful
gashing
gashly
gasholder
gasholders
gashouse

Literary usage of Gases

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1920)
"For example, xylyl and benzyl bromide. 3. Sneezing gases or ... This division of gases is, however, only a rough classification inasmuch as a gas may fall ..."

2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"Owing to the absence of dynamical equilibrium in the case of two gases having different molecular velocities, unless the gases are uniformly mixed, ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"VOLCANIC gases. The most distinctive feature of volcanoes is the explosive action arising from the gases and vapors pent up in the lava. ..."

4. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Some of its applications are to: I. Chimney and flue gases; II. ... I. CHIMNEY AND FLUE gases Here the object is to keep the carbonic acid (CO2) as high as ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Within the last decade the discovery of new gases and the development of new ... The commercial utilization of the other liquefied or compressed gases has ..."

6. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Lastly, putrid odours are not necessarily occasioned by sewage gases, ... In an inquiry at what point sewage gases escape the nose plays the most important ..."

7. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1910)
"Since all gases diffuse rapidly into one another even when- separated by porous ... The rapidity of the diffusion depends upon the extent to which the gases ..."

8. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1920)
"For example, xylyl and benzyl bromide. 3. Sneezing gases or ... This division of gases is, however, only a rough classification inasmuch as a gas may fall ..."

9. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"Owing to the absence of dynamical equilibrium in the case of two gases having different molecular velocities, unless the gases are uniformly mixed, ..."

10. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"VOLCANIC gases. The most distinctive feature of volcanoes is the explosive action arising from the gases and vapors pent up in the lava. ..."

11. Standard methods of chemical analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Some of its applications are to: I. Chimney and flue gases; II. ... I. CHIMNEY AND FLUE gases Here the object is to keep the carbonic acid (CO2) as high as ..."

12. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Within the last decade the discovery of new gases and the development of new ... The commercial utilization of the other liquefied or compressed gases has ..."

13. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Lastly, putrid odours are not necessarily occasioned by sewage gases, ... In an inquiry at what point sewage gases escape the nose plays the most important ..."

14. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1910)
"Since all gases diffuse rapidly into one another even when- separated by porous ... The rapidity of the diffusion depends upon the extent to which the gases ..."

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