WATER GAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water gas mean? 

• WATER GAS (noun)
  The noun WATER GAS has 1 sense:

1. a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with small amounts of other gases; made by blowing steam over hot coke or coal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER GAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with small amounts of other gases; made by blowing steam over hot coke or coal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)

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