gasify
verbUS /ˈɡæsɪfaɪ/
Etymology From gas + -ify.
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Ambitransitive To convert into a gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes; to become a gas or aeriform fluid.
- […] when we consider the disappearance of the dense smoke in Mr. Giddy’s experiment, there seems to be great reason to think that the charcoal was oxygenated and gassified.1806, The Literary Magazine, and American Register, volume 5, page 65:
- Butane will gasify at low pressure, and can be contained in light canisters.1978, Rob Hunter, chapter 4, in The Spur Backpacking and Camping Cook Book, page 28:
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- Fleets of automated diggers and carts would be manufactured to haul the processed material in to centralized factories, where the material would be gassified and released from tall mobile stacks.1996, Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, page 245:
- Derived terms
- degasify, gasifiable, gasifier, regasify
- Related terms
- gas