English
Noun
coal gas (uncountable)
- (petrochemistry) The poisonous gas, used domestically for cooking etc and formerly for lighting, prepared by heating coal with steam (gasification); it is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; sometimes synonymous with synthesis gas or town gas.
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gas prepared by heating coal with steam
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: светилен газ (svetilen gaz)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 煤氣 / 煤气 (mui4 hei3)
- Mandarin: 煤氣 / 煤气 (zh) (méiqì)
- Dutch: kolengas n, lichtgas (nl) n, steenkolengas (nl) n
- Finnish: hiilikaasu
- French: gaz de houille (fr) m
- Greek: αεριόφως (el) n (aeriófos)
- Hungarian: világítógáz (hu)
- Irish: gás guail m
- Persian: گاز زغالسنگ (gâz-e zoġâl-sang)
- Polish: gaz węglowy m, gaz koksowniczy m
- Portuguese: gás de hulha m, gás de carvão m
- Russian: светильный газ m inan (svetilʹnyj gaz)
- Spanish: gas de alumbrado m, gas ciudad m
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