formed from natural + gas, as opposed to coal gas (19th Century).
natural gas (countable and uncountable, plural natural gases)
- 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.
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
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