Gas (disambiguation)
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Gas is one of the phases of matter (Gases, or Gasses Plural) along with solid and liquid. This may also refer to:
[edit] Science and technology: gases and liquids
- Gasoline, a refined fossil fuel, also called petrol
- Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also called "cooking gas", which includes propane and butane
- Autogas, a type of LPG used in motor vehicles
- Natural gas, a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane
- Gassing, destructive gas generation in batteries
- gas giant, a type of planet
- See Category:Gases for a list of gases
[edit] Computer science
- The GNU Assembler
[edit] Biological effects
- As an anaesthetic
- As a poison, see:
- The medical effects of gas being generated in the gastrointestinal tract:
[edit] Entertainment
- Gas (film), a 2004 film starring Flex Alexander and Khalil Kain
- Gas (1981 film), a 1981 comedy film
- Gas, the moniker used by British electronic music artist Mat Jarvis
- Gas (musician), an ambient music project 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 (Finnish band)
[edit] Other uses
- Gas, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
- Gas, Kansas, a town in the United States
- Bristol Rovers FC, an English professional football team so nicknamed for their original proximity to a local gasworks
- GAS, an Italian designer clothing label
- Grêmio Atlético Sampaio, a Brazilian professional football club commonly known as GAS
[edit] As an acronym
GAS may stand for:
- Galpin Auto Sports, a customising garage featured on the television show Pimp My Ride
- Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids television network
- The General Adaptation Syndrome, a model describing responses to stress
- Generalized Audit Software
- Getaway Special, an experiment bay on the Space Shuttle
- The Children’s Global Assessment Scale, used by psychiatrists to assist with assessing children under 18
- A dynamical system can have a single globally asymptotically stable (GAS) equilibrium
- The Great American Songbook, a genre of American popular music
- Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium commonly known as Group A Strep, or GAS
- Growing Artificial Societies, a book describing a computer model for simulating population behaviour
- Gunner's Auxiliary Sight, a backup targeting system for the main gun of the M1 Abrams tank
[edit] See also
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