gaseity

Roget category 334

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.2. Inorganic matter
›› 3.2.2. Fluid matter

#334. Gaseity

noun

gaseity^† — vaporousness etc. adj. — flatulence, flatulency — volatility — aeration, aerification.
elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus — cloud etc. 353 — ammonia, ammoniacal gas^† — volatile alkali — vacuum, partial vacuum.
[Science of elastic fluids] pneumatics, pneumatostatics^† — aerostatics^†, aerodynamics.
gasmeter^†, gasometer^† — air bladder, swimming bladder, sound, (of a fish).

verb

vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor etc. 336 — diffuse.

adjective

gaseous, aeriform^†, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable^†, flatulent.

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