gas
Meaning
gassen
Concepts
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɣɑs/
Etymology
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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