gas water

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Noun edit

Water through which gas has been passed for purification, and used for the manufacture of sal ammoniac, carbonate of ammonia, and Prussian blue.
- 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
  The tar and ammoniacal liquor or gas water are collected in the tar cistern, in which the tar occupies the lowest position.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gas water”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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water gas