producer gas

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   a gas made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen and nitrogen; made by passing air over hot coke

   Synonymsair gas

   Broadergas

Questions about producer gas

What does producer gas mean?

producer gas means "a gas made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen and nitrogen; made by passing air over hot coke".

What is another word for producer gas?

Close synonyms include air gas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is producer gas a common word?

producer gas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.