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| Domain | Definition |
Energy | Natural gas that has been compressed under high pressure, typically between 2,000and 3,600 pounds per square inch, held in a container. The gas expands whenreleased for use as a fuel. (CNG). (references) |
| Natural gas (methane) that has been compressed to a higher pressure gaseous state by a compressor; used in CNG vehicles. (CNG). (references) | |
Environment | An alternative fuel for motor vehicles; considered one of the cleanest because of low hydrocarbon emissions and its vapors are relatively non-ozone producing. However, vehicles fueled with CNG do emit a significant quantity of nitrogen oxides. (CNG). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS |
| Specialty definitions using "COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS": Alternative fuels ♦ Clean Fuels. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There are approximately 82 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in Bangkok at present. (references) | |
Although most of them use gasoline and diesel, the use of compressed natural gas is encouraged through subsidies. (references) | ||
The most cost-effective measure in this category is the replacement of currently used diesel buses with new liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | Under the plan the government will give special incentives to vehicles using compressed natural gas (CNG) and will also impose a pollution tax on smoke emitting vehicles. (references) |
Argentina | Approximately 80 percent of materials handling equipment using internal combustion engines run on diesel fuel, the rest on CNG/LPG (Compressed Natural Gas - Propane), and almost none on gasoline. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
compressed natural gas | 34 |
compressed natural gas vehicle | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 4D 50 52 45 53 53 45 44 4E 41 54 55 52 41 4C 47 41 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01000101 01000100 00100000 01001110 01000001 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000111 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O M P R E S S E D   N A T U R A L   G A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 004D 0050 0052 0045 0053 0053 0045 0044 004E 0041 0054 0055 0052 0041 004C 0047 0041 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374947505239535339382483554555235462413553 |
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