Word: gaseousness
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...East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600 its gaseous volume. Heated by steam, the liquid will again vaporize and go out through East Ohio's mains next winter...
...cohort of planets revolving around a central sun, at different distances but in the same direction and in almost the same plane, he has wondered how it all started. Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated "nebular hypothesis": that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down to its present calm estate...
...Then four more carbons enter and join the groups. The molecules are suddenly aware of their gaseous nature and the atoms execute nuclear spins as the fast throbbing chords of the ethylene and acetylene dance are heard...
...these were not jittery times, we might safely ignore windbags of the Coughlin or Heflin ilk, who have a tendency to explode of their own inflammable gaseous content -or are discarded by a weary public to the obscurity ash heap...
...heat. This process yields only 44% gasoline (the money-making product), leaves refiners with a great bulk of fuel oil and other by-products to dispose of. Phillips Petroleum Co. has lately found a way to convert some of these by-products into gasoline-through polymerization, which compresses wasted gaseous fractions of crude oil into the heavier molecules of gasoline...