natural gas
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- noun
- /ˈnæʧərəl ɡæs/
- Specialized
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gas natural
- Many households rely on natural gas for cooking and heating their homes during winter.
- natural gas prices
- natural gas supply
- natural gas production
We have no natural gas, we have no petroleum.
- We have no natural gas, we have no petroleum.
- It's going to be exporting natural gas and it's startup nation.
- But the mobility piece is like, oh, I'm not really sure where to get natural gas except at SFO.
- So that's the simplest gas with carbon forms with and that is natural gas, methane.
- Enron soon dominated the market for natural gas contracts and started to generate huge profits.
- But the last two are unlike the others, the whole economy depends on natural gas and oil.
- All these hydrogen powered plants can also be run on methane AK natural gas.
- Do I really care that China is, you know, playing, you know, with liquefied natural gas with France?
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There will be difficult negotiations between natural gas suppliers and consumers over new contract terms.
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Policies designed to stimulate the domestic supply of natural gas should be reconsidered.
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Easy to look at, Oh, Europe needs to distance itself from Russian oil and Russian natural gas, Russian energy.
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So nuclear plus natural gas, good combination.
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In the United States, it's either coal or natural gas.
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Today, the world is essentially divided into three natural gas markets: North America, Asia, and Europe.
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The expedition was sent to look for oil and natural gas in the Arctic Ocean.
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In Asia, countries that consume natural gas will find it cheaper to do so.
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Most of the natural gas traded in Asia is in the form of LNG.
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As the second-largest holder of natural gas, Iran will be affected, too.
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Synonyms
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A fuel that you use in home stoves and heaters
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound simply combines 'natural' (from nature) with 'gas' (a gaseous fuel), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a gas that occurs in nature and is used as fuel. This adjective+noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, making the meaning readily derivable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The noun natural gas is named because natural means 'from the ground' and gas means an invisible fuel you can burn. People found pockets of this gas underground and burned it for 'heat' and 'energy', so the name now means the fuel used for cooking, heating, and making electricity.