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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Vergasung

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fer-gah-zoong

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gasification/ˌɡæs.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Vergasung von Biomasse liefert umweltfreundliches Synthesegas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A process that converts carbon-based materials, such as coal, petroleum, or biomass, into carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide.

    "Modern gasification plants can convert municipal solid waste into clean energy and valuable chemical products."
  2. 2

    The conversion of a solid or a liquid substance into a gaseous state.

    "The extreme heat inside the chamber facilitates the rapid gasification of the liquid fuel."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the chemical noun 'gas' (coined by the 17th-century Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont from the Greek word 'chaos') combined with the combining form '-ification' from Latin '-ificatio' (making or turning into). The term emerged in the early 19th century alongside the development of coal gas and industrial manufacturing processes.

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