natural gas

English

Etymology

formed from natural + gas, as opposed to coal gas (19th Century).

Pronunciation

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Noun

natural gas (countable and uncountable, plural natural gases)

1. A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits; mostly methane with smaller amounts of ethane, propane and butane; principally used as a fuel.
   • 1946 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Natural Gas at Heathfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:

     For a good many years, beginning in London, Brighton & South Coast days, the station at Heathfield, between Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne, was lighted by natural gas. The use of this illuminant was discontinued about 1934.

   • 2010, Kelly Swanson, Human Geography‎^[1], page 169:

     Natural gas is an odorless, colorless gas from inside the Earth. When burned, it provides abundant heat to homes and businesses around the United States and the world.

Derived terms

• compressed natural gas (CNG)
• dry natural gas
• liquid natural gas (LNG)

Translations

mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits

• Afrikaans: aardgas
• Arabic: غَاز طَبِيعِيّ m (ḡāz ṭabīʕiyy)
• Armenian: բնական գազ (hy) (bnakan gaz), գազ (hy) (gaz)
• Azerbaijani: təbii qaz
• Belarusian: прыро́дны газ m (pryródny haz)
• Bulgarian: приро́ден газ m (priróden gaz)
• Catalan: gas natural m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天然氣／天然气 (zh) (tiānránqì), 天然煤氣／天然煤气 (tiānrán méiqì)

• Czech: zemní plyn (cs) m
• Danish: naturgas (da) c
• Dutch: aardgas (nl) n
• Esperanto: tergaso (eo)
• Estonian: maagaas (et)
• Finnish: maakaasu (fi)
• French: gaz naturel (fr) m
• Georgian: ბუნებრივი აირი (bunebrivi airi)
• German: Erdgas (de) n
• Greek: φυσικό αέριο (el) n (fysikó aério)
• Hungarian: földgáz (hu)
• Indonesian: gas alam (id), gas bumi (id)
• Interlingua: gas natural
• Irish: gás nádúrtha m
• Italian: gas naturale (it) m
• Japanese: 天然ガス (ja) (てんねんガス, tennen gasu), 市ガス (しガス, shigasu)
• Kazakh: табиғи газ (tabiği gaz)
• Korean: 천연가스 (cheonyeon'gaseu)
• Kyrgyz: табигый газ (tabigıy gaz)
• Lao: ແກັສທຳມະຊາດ (kæt tham ma sāt)
• Latvian: dabasgāze f
• Lithuanian: gamtinės dujos f pl
• Macedonian: природен гас m (priroden gas)
• Malay: gas asli
• Maori: kapuni
• Navajo: níłchʼi łikoní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: naturgass m

  Nynorsk: naturgass m

• Persian: گاز طبیعی (gâz-e tabi'i)
• Polish: gaz ziemny (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: gás natural (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕੁਦਰਤੀ ਗੈਸ f (kudratī gais)
• Romanian: gaz natural n
• Russian: приро́дный газ (ru) m (priródnyj gaz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: земни плин m, природни гас m

  Roman: zemni plin m, prirodni gas m

• Slovak: zemný plyn m
• Slovene: zemeljski plin m
• Spanish: gas natural (es) m
• Swahili: gesi asilia class 9
• Swedish: naturgas (sv) c
• Tagalog: likas na buhag
• Tajik: гази табиӣ (gaz-i tab-ii)
• Tatar: табигый газ (tabigıy ğaz)
• Thai: แก๊สธรรมชาติ, ก๊าซธรรมชาติ
• Tibetan: སྣུམ་རླུང (snum rlung)
• Turkish: doğal gaz (tr)
• Turkmen: tebigy gaz
• Ukrainian: приро́дний газ m (pryródnyj haz)
• Uzbek: tabiiy gaz
• Vietnamese: khí thiên nhiên (vi), khí ga, khí gas, khí đốt
• Welsh: nwy naturiol (cy) m

See also

• petroleum gas