gasify

• gassify

From gas + -ify.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæsɪfaɪ/

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gasify (third-person singular simple present gasifies, present participle gasifying, simple past and past participle gasified)

1. (ambitransitive) To convert into a gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes; to become a gas or aeriform fluid.
   • 1806, The Literary Magazine, and American Register‎^[1], volume 5, page 65:

     […] when we consider the disappearance of the dense smoke in Mr. Giddy’s experiment, there seems to be great reason to think that the charcoal was oxygenated and gassified.

   • 1978, Rob Hunter, chapter 4, in The Spur Backpacking and Camping Cook Book‎^[2], page 28:

     Butane will gasify at low pressure, and can be contained in light canisters.

   • 1996, Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars‎^[3], page 245:

     Fleets of automated diggers and carts would be manufactured to haul the processed material in to centralized factories, where the material would be gassified and released from tall mobile stacks.

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