gas

(Anglais)

gassen

Fréquence

B1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɣɑs/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, chaos”).

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