The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquid air \Liq"uid air\ (Physics) A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of its constituents (N: -194[deg] C; O: -183[deg] C.).
Wiktionary
n. air which is in a liquid state due to being pressurised or kept at a low temperature, or both, usually for storage and transport purposes.
WordNet
n. air in a liquid state
Wikipedia
Liquid Air was the brand name of an unusual automobile produced by a joint American/ English concern between 1899 and 1902.
The first factory opened in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899, and its owners claimed that they could construct a car that would run a hundred miles on liquid air. By 1901 the company had gone into receivership. In 1902 the product was demonstrated by its designer, Hans Knudsen, at a show in London; apparently the automobile that was shown was a modified Locomobile steamer. Here it was claimed to run at on of liquid air, sold at a shilling a gallon.
Liquid Air EP is the second EP by German electronic band Air Liquide, which was released in 1992.
Liquid air is air that has been cooled to very low temperatures.
Liquid air may also refer to:
- Liquid Air, was an early automobile
- Liquid Air (EP), is an EP by German band Air Liquide
Usage examples of "liquid air".
The room was filled with mist as the liquid air seethed until it had cooled Caselon's flask.
You may fill a flask with liquid air yourself, Master Robinton, and experiment on your own.
Then the apparatus reversed itself and supplied fresh air from the now-enriched fluid, while the depleted other tank began to fill up with cold-purified liquid air.
There were splashes of red and blue that must be the Stars and Stripes Malenfant had insisted must adorn all his ships, and the hull's smooth curve glistened sharply where liquid air had frozen out frost from the desert night.
He was hot-even hotter than the liquid air-and my first instinct was to draw back, but I didn't follow it.
You're a bloodless featureless zombie, as measured as a yardstick and colder than liquid air!
Ool says they've got tanks of liquid air at the Central Mechanical Plant that would refrigerate all of New York City.
He found an ultra frigid storage box, whose contents were kept at the temperature of liquid air.
I had a big cylinder of liquid air on board, and there had been plenty of time since the battle for it to recharge completely.