The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
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a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; a…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concen…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evap…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change, Resources and energy, Atmosphere and climate.a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation
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Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.Alt. of Alkaloidal
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.Ere; before.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.Organelles in plant cells that carry out photosynthesis
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of bo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: heavy, odorless, colorless, formed, during.A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and i…
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