Gas (disambiguation)

Gas is one of the phases of matter (Gases, or Gasses Plural) along with solid and liquid. This may also refer to:

Science and technology: gases and liquids

• Gasoline, a refined fossil fuel, also called petrol
• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also called "cooking gas", which includes propane and butane
• Autogas, a type of LPG used in motor vehicles
• Natural gas, a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane
• Gassing, destructive gas generation in batteries
• gas giant, a type of planet
• See Category:Gases for a list of gases

Computer science

• The GNU Assembler

Biological effects

• As an anaesthetic
• As a poison, see:
  • Gas chamber
  • Poison
  • Toxicology
• The medical effects of gas being generated in the gastrointestinal tract:
  • bloating
  • burping
  • flatulence

Entertainment

• Gas (film), a 2004 film starring Flex Alexander and Khalil Kain
• Gas (1981 film), a 1981 comedy film
• Gas, the moniker used by British electronic music artist Mat Jarvis
• Gas (musician), an ambient music project by German producer Wolfgang Voigt
• Gas-s-s-s, also called Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, a 1971 Roger Corman movie
• Gas (comic), a British adult comic
• Gas Lipstick, a.k.a. Mika Karppinen, the drummer for Finnish rock band HIM (Finnish band)

Other uses

• Gas, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
• Gas, Kansas, a town in the United States
• Bristol Rovers FC, an English professional football team so nicknamed for their original proximity to a local gasworks
• GAS, an Italian designer clothing label
• Grêmio Atlético Sampaio, a Brazilian professional football club commonly known as GAS

As an acronym

GAS may stand for:

• Galpin Auto Sports, a customising garage featured on the television show Pimp My Ride
• Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids television network
• The General Adaptation Syndrome, a model describing responses to stress
• Generalized Audit Software
• Getaway Special, an experiment bay on the Space Shuttle
• The Children’s Global Assessment Scale, used by psychiatrists to assist with assessing children under 18
• A dynamical system can have a single globally asymptotically stable (GAS) equilibrium
• The Great American Songbook, a genre of American popular music
• Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium commonly known as Group A Strep, or GAS
• Growing Artificial Societies, a book describing a computer model for simulating population behaviour
• Gunner's Auxiliary Sight, a backup targeting system for the main gun of the M1 Abrams tank

See also

• Gassing (disambiguation)
• Gass (disambiguation)
• Gaslight (disambiguation)
• natural gas