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For example, a team was partially successful in synthesizing them using gunpowder and compressed air on graphite disks.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
Huffing compressed air can cause a brief high with dangerous side effects including paralysis, according to the American Addiction Centers.
—Peter Sblendorio New York Daily News (tns), al, 8 Nov. 2022
The air guns then fire compressed air that creates sound pulses that reverberate off the sea floor and provide subsurface images.
—Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
That compressed air inside the pump and shoved water into a tube.
—John Fialka, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
Huffing compressed air can cause a brief high with dangerous side effects including paralysis, according to the American Addiction Centers.
—Peter Sblendorio New York Daily News (tns), al, 8 Nov. 2022
The air guns then fire compressed air that creates sound pulses that reverberate off the sea floor and provide subsurface images.
—Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
That compressed air inside the pump and shoved water into a tube.
—John Fialka, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2021
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“Compressed air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compressed%20air. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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compressed air
noun
com·pressed air
kəm-ˌprest-ˈa(ə)r, käm-, -ˈe(ə)r 
: air under pressure greater than that of the atmosphere
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