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PRONUNCIATION OF TOWN GAS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOWN GAS

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Town gas is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TOWN GAS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

town gas

Coal gas

Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system. Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities. Coal gas contains a variety of calorific gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane and volatile hydrocarbons together with small quantities of non-calorific gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Prior to the development of natural gas supplies and transmission systems, virtually all fuel and lighting gas used in both the United States and Great Britain was manufactured from coal. Gas was often supplied to households via a municipally owned piped distribution system. Originally created as a by-product of the coking process, its use developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries tracking the industrial revolution and urbanization. By-products from the production process included coal tars and ammonia, which were important chemical feedstock for the dye and chemical industry with a wide range of artificial dyes being made from coal gas and coal tar.

Definition of town gas in the English dictionary

The definition of town gas in the dictionary is coal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial use.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOWN GAS

town
town centre
town clerk
town council
town councillor
town crier
town dweller
town hall
town house
town life
town meeting
town milk
town plan
town planner
town planning
town-and-country planning
townee
Townes
townhall clock
townie

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOWN GAS

air gas
carbonic-acid gas
flue gas
greenhouse gas
inert gas
laughing gas
liquefied natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas
mustard gas
natural gas
nerve gas
nitrogen gas
noble gas
poison gas
propane gas
shale gas
step on the gas
synthesis gas
tear gas
water gas

Synonyms and antonyms of town gas in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «town gas» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOWN GAS

Find out the translation of town gas to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of town gas from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «town gas» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

煤气
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gas ciudad
570 millions of speakers

English

town gas
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शहर गैस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غاز المدينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бытовой газ
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gás de cidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শহর গ্যাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gaz de ville
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gas bandar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stadtgas
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

都市ガス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도시 가스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gas kutha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khí thị trấn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நகரம் எரிவாயு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शहर वायू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kasaba gazı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gas di città
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gaz miejski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

побутовий газ
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gaz de
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αέριο πόλης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dorp gas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stadsgas
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

byen gass
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of town gas

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOWN GAS»

The term «town gas» is regularly used and occupies the 91.395 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOWN GAS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about town gas

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOWN GAS»

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Town Gas and Its Uses for the Production of Light, Heat, and ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
William Hosgood Young Webber, 2010
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Gasification
The most important gaseous fuel used in the first century of industrial development was town gas. This was produced by two processes: pyrolysis, in which discontinuously operating ovens produce coke and a gas with a relatively high heating ...
Christopher Higman, Maarten van der Burgt, 2011
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New Scientist
Although natural gas requires approximately twice as much oxygen per cubic foot , a converted appliance burns only half as much gas by volume as it previously did town gas. Thus the oxygen required is sensibly unchanged. Because of the ...
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Third World Petroleum Congress the Hague 1951
Another application is in flame-hardening, that is, short but intense heating of a part, which is then rapidly cooled. In this way the surface layer is hardened, while the core remains tough. Town gas industry It is no new thing for an oil product to ...
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Underground Storage of Natural Gas: Theory and Practice
5.1 - Conversion at Beynes The Beynes reservoir, near Paris, was first converted from low BTU town gas during 1973. The allowable limit of the town gas in storage gas was 3 X. Because of this severe criterion, the conversion used was partial ...
Mehmet Rasin Tek, 1989
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Remediation of Former Manufactured Gas Plants and Other ...
Institute.of. 1,000,000.cf/day Mechanical.Engineers.of. Great.Britain,.1909 Average.new.town.gas.generators.were.of.the.5.5–6.0.ft.diameter Average.U.S.. town.gas.generator.had.a.20.year.life.under.optimal. conditions.of.use.and. maintenance ...
Allen W. Hatheway, 2011
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Climate Policy Assessment: Asia-Pacific Integrated Modeling
1 unit 1,603 10 Small private car 152 Gasoline 62.6 0 1.68 Small car (electricity) 1 unit 4,950 10 Small private car 152 Electricity 14.6 0 Small car (compressed town gas) 1 unit 2,000 10 Small private car 152 Town Gas 83.3 0 Small car ...
Mikiko Kainuma, Yuzuru Matsuoka, Tsuneyuki Morita, 2003
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Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects ...
Fifty years ago, hydrogen-rich town gas was stored underground in an aquifer some 20 miles west of Paris, near the small town of Beynes. In the oil-shocked hydrogen community of the 1970s, Beynes carried a certain amount of name ...
Peter Hoffmann, 2012
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Boiler Operation Engineering: Questions and Answers
Solution Step (I) Calorific Value Basis: 1 Nm3 of town gas Step (III) Volume of Flue Gas Basis: 1 Nm3 of Town Gas In order to determine the calorimetric temperature of combustion, it is necessary to know the composition of the products of ...
P. Chattopadhyay, 2000
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Pretreatment Techniques for Biofuels and Biorefineries
Town Gas Specifications The upgrading process is basically a separation of CH4 and C02 in the biogas, in order to obtain town gas quality with regard to the caloric value, Wobbe index (WI: the value was obtained by dividing the amount of  ...
Zhen Fang, 2013

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOWN GAS»

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Out of town gas seam protesters turn up the heat in Gloucester
PROFESSIONAL anti-gas protesters are travelling thousands of kilometres to be arrested by police and bolster numbers outside AGL's Gloucester coal seam ... «The Daily Telegraph, Nov 14»
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Gas explosion like in Taiwan unlikely here, Hong Kong experts say
"What we have in the gas pipes are either liquefied petroleum gases made of propane and butane, or natural gases to be converted into town gas. The chance ... «South China Morning Post, Aug 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Town gas [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/town-gas>. Apr 2024 ».
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