Steam is water is the gaseous state. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His first problem involved the study, by flow techniques, of free radicals produced in gaseous photochemical reactions. From Wordnik.com. [George Porter - Biography] Reference
I'État dilué (Chemical equilibria in gaseous systems or strongly diluted solutions), which dealt with this theory of dilute solutions. From Wordnik.com. [Jacobus H. van 't Hoff - Biography] Reference
The pulse, apparently full, was easily compressible, and was what might be called a gaseous pulse, and a resort to the lancet. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Caroline County, Virginia] Reference
This would give each atom a larger sphere of freedom in which to move, and that state would then be called a gaseous and not a liquid one. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
This is known as the gaseous fermentation, and the effect of it is to render the wine more enlivening, more stinging to the taste, and more fruity. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
The eminent peculiarity of the moon is that it is destitute of any kind of gaseous or aqueous envelope. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
Van Helmont's discovery of the gaseous state of matter. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
So all of that gaseous water that's circling the star freezes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fruitless Search For Solar Systems Like Ours] Reference
Astronomers call these formations "evaporating gaseous globules" - or EGGs. From Wordnik.com. [Witness At The Creation] Reference
There are three characteristics of the gaseous condition which bring this out. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In the gaseous atmosphere, neutral crystals formed and fell like powdered rain. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
So there are absorbed into the system liquid and gaseous products which are poison. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Generation of Heat by the Combustion of Fuel, whether solid, liquid or gaseous. 8vo. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
= — It has been found in the bleaching of hair that gaseous chlorine is the most effectual. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Thus we see that matter may be roughly divided into three states, viz. solid, liquid, or gaseous. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Three weeks from birth Alpha partook of solid food in tablet form drawn chiefly from gaseous sources. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
No one has ever seen an atom of hydrogen or oxygen, or an atom of any solid, liquid, or gaseous matter. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Indeed, cohesion increases as we pass from the gaseous, through the liquid, to the solid state of matter. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The gaseous disturbances should be relieved by puncturing the wall of the intestine with the trocar and cannula. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Heat is indeed the energy which transforms matter by carrying it from the solid to the liquid and gaseous states. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
That means the briny relic may help researchers learn about the gaseous nebula that gave rise to our sun and planets. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Water From Afar] Reference
The 60-mile-high plume is probably sulfur dioxide; parts are gaseous and the rest has frozen into a snowlike substance. From Wordnik.com. [Jupiter Steals The Show] Reference
Here we find gaseous matter displaying a dynamic behaviour which at lower stages occurs only under the stimulus of heat. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Faster and faster it rotated, till finally its gaseous components separated and flew off in a hundred different directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
Unfortunately, like many other people interested in crude-oil substitutes, he completely overlooked gaseous biofuel options. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Alternative Fuels] Reference
It's a process of putting preservatives into the body in a liquid form that changes to a gaseous form and goes into the cells. From Wordnik.com. [Preparing the Pontiff] Reference
We are not selecting someone to (in the gaseous language of today's politics) "control the economy" or "get the country moving.". From Wordnik.com. [ELECTION, NOT CANONIZATION] Reference
At the foot of the crater, just where the path leading to the top commences, is a gaseous chalybeate spring; not unlike those of Vals. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
We have seen how this applies to our knowledge of the gaseous state of matter; it applies also to the idea of the uniqueness of gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Of momentous significance in this respect is the discovery of the gaseous state of matter by the Flemish physician and experimenter, Joh. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
(Syngas is a gaseous combination of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and sometimes carbon dioxide with less than half the energy density of natural gas.). From Wordnik.com. [Trash into gas: Coskata launches demonstration scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery] Reference
For example, sound, which is a wave-motion of the air, can not only be transmitted through gaseous bodies as air, but also through liquids and solids. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Most of the elementary bodies are to be found in a gaseous form as hydrogen, oxygen, fluorine and chlorine, though it has been found possible to liquefy even these gases. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
At the same time, it is possible for matter to pass from one division into another, as for example in the case of water, which may exist in solid, liquid, and gaseous form. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
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