synthesis gas
noun
: a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used especially in chemical synthesis
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About 40 miles from the site, engineers from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor International Corporation (MCO-I) are working to deliver the GCA project’s API617 multi-stage centrifugal synthesis gas and ammonia refrigeration compressor trains.
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Johnny Wood, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
Catalysts, along with heat and pressure, could then transform synthesis gas into gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
Johnny Wood, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
Catalysts, along with heat and pressure, could then transform synthesis gas into gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 July 2019
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circa 1941, in the meaning defined above
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