gasify
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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to make into or become a gas
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to subject (coal, etc) to destructive distillation to produce gas, esp for use as a fuel
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The experience of the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi, a $7.5 billion plant designed to gasify coal and capture the emissions, remains fresh in many utility executives' minds, observers said.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2017
The plant, near Vero Beach, Fla., adjacent to an Indian River County landfill, will begin with plant waste, including palm tree leaves, and will gasify it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
V. vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Any force that causes gases to contract will do the same thing, of course—for example, cold; and ceteris paribus removal of pressure and expansion by heat will act so as to gasify liquids.
From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk
It will take about three hours completely to gasify the 50 grammes of carbide under these conditions.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
Bills for Mississippi Power’s 192,000 customers rose 15% in 2015 for the part of the plant that today burns natural gas instead of gasified coal.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
“No matter what they put in, the furnace melted and gasified it,” Mr. Kasten said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2013
The most obvious is to take along a stock of material that can be gasified by the nuclear heat and shot out the tail at great speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The greatest precision is attained when the whole of the sample submitted to the analyst is gasified in a carbide-to-water apparatus, and the gas evolved is measured in an accurately graduated gasholder.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
If the generator is one of those in which the entire charge of carbide is not gasified at once, addition of fresh carbide must only be made by daylight.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
And he points out that Dixon Ridge Farms in Winters, California, has been gasifying shells from the walnuts the farm produces since 2007.
From Slate ● May 29, 2014
A number of processes can be used to extract energy from pistachio shells, including burning, charring, or gasifying them.
From Slate ● May 29, 2014
The loss involved in gasifying the fuel to recover the ammonia therefrom amounts thus to 20 per cent. of the fuel used.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various
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