Word: gaseousness
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...cubic inch of dry ice makes 450 cu. in. of gaseous carbon dioxide if the gas is free to expand at atmospheric pressure...
...lattice in the crystal, determines the composition of a mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely in arrangement than it resembles its own gaseous form, steam. "We are just beginning to know what water is," he said wryly, "although we have been calling it H2O for more than a century...
...crude oil ("cracking"), finally by hydrogenation. The Phillips process was polymerization-formation of heavy molecules from light ones with heat, pressure, catalysts (chemical activators). By this method lightweight derivatives formerly wasted or diverted to by-products are made into high-grade fuel. Trade papers pointed out that if all gaseous hydrocarbons produced in cracking were utilized by the Phillips patented process, the extra gasoline output would be about 1,000,000,000 gal. per year...
...originator of wrestling with cattle, whose disgusting act was holding the poor beast by the nose with his teeth, was on his death eulogized by a gaseous columnist, saying his like would not be seen again. A humane animal lover retorted: "It is sincerely hoped there never would...
...intelligent. . . . Its moral system remains an easy and grateful refuge for the weak and the sick, the stupid and the misinformed, the confiding and the irresolute, but there is little in it to attract men and women who are intelligent and enterprising, and do not fear remote, gaseous and preposterous gods, and have a proper respect for the dignity...