- Flammable gas
- Fuel gas
- Marsh gas
- Marsh-gas
- Natural gas
- Odourless flammable gas
- The simplest alkane
- Marsh gas
- Noxious air
- Noxious cloud
- Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made
noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia;
malaria.
- Camp-stove fuel
- Cigarette lighter gas
- Colourless gas
- Flammable hydrocarbon gas
- Fuel gas
- Lighter fuel
- Portable stove fuel
- A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas
series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
- A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series,
being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf.
Octane.
- A hydrocarbon, C24H50, resembling paraffin, and like
it belonging to the marsh-gas series; -- so called from having
twenty-four atoms of carbon in the molecule.
- A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from
Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; --
called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.