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Answer for the clue "Convert into an air-like substance ", 6 letters:
gasify

Word definitions for gasify in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. turn into gas; "The substance gasified" [syn: vaporize , vaporise , aerify ] [also: gasified ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gasify \Gas"i*fy\, v. i. To become gas; to pass from a liquid to a gaseous state. --Scientific American.

Usage examples of gasify.

The winter suit he was wearing at that moment was as much like a spacesuit as the designers could make it, and the frigid numbing downvalley breeze was like breathing purified oxygen just gasified from liquid stock, and insufficiently warmed.

Instead of mining coal and transporting it, it was to be gasified at the source, and the gas transported.

You took any piece, crushed it, gasified it, ionized it, put it through the electromagnetic isotope separator, and drew forth as much (or, rather, as minutely little) germanium as any other piece would have given you.

The winter suit he was wearing at that moment was as much like a space suit as the designers could make it, and the frigid numbing down-valley breeze was like breathing purified oxygen just gasified from liquid stock, and insufficiently warmed.

You took any piece, crushed it, gasified it, ionized it, put it through the electromagnetic isotope separator, and drew forth as much—or, rather, as minutely little—germanium as any other piece would have given you.

Basic crystalline structure that gasifies on contact with moisture--in this case, the humidity of all those exhaling lungs.