gasogen

English

Etymology

From gas +‎ -o- +‎ -gen.

Noun

gasogen (plural gasogens)

1. An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
2. A volatile hydrocarbon used as an illuminant or for charging illuminating gas.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “gasogen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)