What is "outgas"

Usage examples of "outgas".

The lighter elements outgas in a relatively short period of time, so the elements necessary for water and air are absent, even if there were a source of heat.

The laboring air-recirculation systems did little to dampen the odor of decaying upholstery that continued to outgas even so many years after the scooter had been put into operation.

And so the nauseous balloon sank, fold on midnight fold, upon its own boneless self, fissuring volcanic sulphurs, immense rectal airs, outgassed whistles and whimpers of self-pitying despair.

Apart from much else, our lively interior created the outgassing that helped to build an atmosphere and provided us with the magnetic field that shields us from cosmic radiation.

Back in the 1950s a test on living in an enclosed environment had ended early because the floor covering, some sort of linoleum, turned out to be outgassing some really toxic stuff and everybody in the experiment got sick.

Huge flows of hot melted rock poured out over the floors of the Pacific and Indian oceans, raising sea levels, while outgassing of carbon dioxide created a greenhouse effect.

While back down toward the equator, new aquifers were being filled from below, by outgassing from the core.

And the old broken aquifers had refilled, from the Tharsis upwelling and all the heat and outgassing that that engendered.

While back down toward the equator, new aquifers were being filled from below, by outgassing from the core.

It was either being outgassed from the planet's interior-unlikely, after twelve billion years-or it was a by-product of some form of non-equilibrium chemical process driven by the light from Voltaire.

These same pressures had also caused deep fracturing all around the rim of the basin, and it was this fracturing that had allowed unusually large amounts of outgassing from the interior of the planet.

The latter was close to being a sucker bet, as some probes, notably the ill-fated Soviet Phobos probes of the late twentieth century, had actually detected some water outgassing from the little moon.

And so the nauseous balloon sank, fold on midnight fold, upon its own boneless sell, fissuring volcanic sulfurs, immense rectal airs, outgassed whistles, and whimpers of self-pitying despair.