gaseous state
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- noun
- /ˈɡeɪʃəs steɪt/
- Specialized
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estado gaseoso
- When heated, the water transformed from a liquid to a gaseous state, filling the entire room with steam.
Yet in the table you find the property of formation of water in the fictitious gaseous state.
- Yet in the table you find the property of formation of water in the fictitious gaseous state.
Examples
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In a gaseous state, the substance has no fixed volume and will spread out to fill any container.
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The primary role of the Sun is to provide enough heat energy to keep the atmosphere in a gaseous state and maintain the vapor pressure.
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When natural gas is needed, the liquid is warmed to a point where it's converted back to its gaseous state.
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The balloon expands because the air inside it is in a gaseous state and takes up more space than when it is compressed.
Synonyms
The state of something when it is a gas like air
Antonyms
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A condition of a substance when it keeps its shape and does not flow, like rock or ice
How Gaseous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'gaseous' means existing in a gas form and 'state' refers to a physical form, so the combined meaning ('the physical form in which a substance is a gas') is immediately derivable. This is a standard scientific collocation with the same logic in many languages, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Gaseous state comes from the simple image of steam or air: in the gaseous form tiny parts move freely and the state spreads to 'fill' any container and has 'no fixed shape'. That's why it means a type of substance that spreads out and does not keep one shape or size.