Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of converting a substance into gas, or producing gas from it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of converting into gas.

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  • noun Action of gasifying.
  • noun chemistry Process of transforming carbon-based materials into a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that can serve as fuel.

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  • noun the process of changing into gas

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Examples

  • Ting Wang, mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Orleans, said "plasma gasification is a good technology, but when building any plant, its economics and the surrounding community must be considered."

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  • Ting Wang, mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Orleans, said "plasma gasification is a good technology, but when building any plant, its economics and the surrounding community must be considered."

    Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant

  • Ting Wang, mechanical engineering professor at the University of New Orleans, said "plasma gasification is a good technology, but when building any plant, its economics and the surrounding community must be considered."

    Susan Buchanan: New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant

  • At considerably less than $200/barrel even coal gasification is profitable.

    Waldo Jaquith - Free-market fuel price solution?

  • Then we have the coal gasification project, which is starting up next month and we call gasification project, which will startup about a year later.

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  • The year-long experiment is converting construction debris and garbage into useful, high-quality synthesis gas through a process called gasification, meaning breaking down materials into gases using intense heat.

    Sustainable: Waste Not: The Furnace Can Take It

  • The year-long experiment is converting construction debris and garbage into useful, high-quality synthesis gas through a process called gasification, meaning breaking down materials into gases using intense heat.

    Sustainable: October 2008

  • For coal, it's early, but there's still the good possibility of alternative methods of extraction of deep coal seams like gasification, which is being done around the world.

    Rabett Run

  • But Mecklenburg County chairperson Jennifer Roberts said that the groups are not accurate when it comes to the process of gasification and explains that gasification occurs when "you burn at a much higher rate and therefore the residue the emissions are much less than a normal incinerator."

    WCNC - News - World

  • Learn about a plant in Benson, Minnesota that burns biomass in a process called gasification to turn out a clean gas (synthetic) similar to the natural gas used to heat our homes and businesses.

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