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matter that refuses to be told where to stand
means A state of matter that expands freely to fill any container, having neither fixed shape nor fixed volume; also, by extension, the fuel that powers engines or the act of moving fast.
from A deliberate coinage by the 17th-century Flemish chemist Jan Baptista van Helmont, who shaped it after the Greek 'khaos' (chaos) — the formless void — to name the wild, uncontainable vapors he studied. The spelling shifted toward Dutch pronunciation, where 'g' sounds soft. The 'gasoline' sense is a much later American shortening, and 'gas' meaning fun or chatter ('a real gas') is 20th-century slang.
- force
- powers planes, fuels stars, lifts balloons
- sneaky
- odorless killers get fake smell added on purpose
- speed
- air molecules zip past at 500 meters per second
- reach
- expands instantly to fill any container
- history
- helium was found on the sun first
nord stream 1 — russian natural gas pipeline to germany, 1,224 km long, shut down in 2022 after invasion of ukraine
liquefied natural gas carriers — ships transporting lng globally, qatar exported 77 million tonnes in 2022, world's largest lng exporter
interstate 95 gas shortage — colonial pipeline ransomware attack may 2021 halted fuel supply to us east coast for 6 days