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COMPRESSED GAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compressed gas mean? 

COMPRESSED GAS (noun)
  The noun COMPRESSED GAS has 1 sense:

1. gas at a high pressure that can be used as a propellantplay

  Familiarity information: COMPRESSED GAS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMPRESSED GAS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Gas at a high pressure that can be used as a propellant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("compressed gas" is a kind of...):

propellant; propellent (any substance that propels)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compressed gas"):

compressed air (air at a pressure greater than that of the atmosphere)


 Context examples 


An aerosol product which utilizes a compressed gas as the propellant to provide the force necessary to expel the product as a wet spray; it is applicable to solutions of medicinal agents in aqueous solvents.

(Aerosol Spray Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)



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