Gas (disambiguation)
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Gas is one of the four main physical states of matter (plural "gases" or "gasses"), along with solid, liquid, and plasma.
Gas may also refer to:
Science and technology
- Gasoline, a refined fossil fuel in non-gaseous liquid form, also called petrol
- Any fuel gas regardless of its physical state
- Natural gas, a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane
- Liquefied petroleum gas, also called "cooking gas", which includes propane and butane
- Autogas, a type of LPG used in motor vehicles
- Gassing, destructive gas generation in batteries
- Gas giant, a type of planet
- See Category:Gases for a list of gases
Computer science
- The GNU Assembler
Biological effects
- As an anaesthetic
- As a poison, see:
- The medical effects of gas being generated in the human gastrointestinal tract:
Entertainment
- Gas (1944 film), a Private Snafu animated short
- Gas (1981 film), a Canadian comedy film
- Gas (2004 film), an American film starring Flex Alexander and Khalil Kain
- Gas, the moniker used by British electronic music artist Mat Jarvis
- Gas (musician), a moniker used by German producer Wolfgang Voigt
- Gas-s-s-s, also called Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, a 1971 Roger Corman movie
- Gas (comic), a British adult comic
- Gas Lipstick, a.k.a. Mika Karppinen, the drummer for Finnish rock band HIM
- Cinema Unit Gas, a production company founded in 1988 by Akira Takatsuki
Medicine
- Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium commonly known as Group A Strep, or GAS
Other uses
- Gas, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
- Gas, Iran (disambiguation), villages in Iran
- Gas, Kansas, a town in the United States
- Gunnar A. Sjögren, initials "GAS", a Swedish engineer who worked for Saab Automobile
- Bristol Rovers FC, England, nicknamed for nearby gasworks
- Gas jeans, an Italian designer clothing label
- GaS, chemical formula for Gallium(II) sulfide
- Grêmio Atlético Sampaio, a Brazilian football club
- Galpin Auto Sports, US customising garage
- Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids, Nick Gas, former television network
- The General Adaptation Syndrome, a model describing responses to stress
- Generalized Audit Software
- Getaway Special, an experiment bay on the Space Shuttle
- Global Assessment Scale, later Global Assessment of Functioning, in mental health
- Goal Attainment Scaling, a therapeutic method
- Gunner's Auxiliary Sight of the M1 Abrams tank
- Plural of Ga
See also
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