blau gas

noun

ˈblau̇-

: an oil gas consisting chiefly of a mixture of lower saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons supplied in liquid form under pressure and used especially formerly for heating and lighting and as a motor fuel

—distinguished from blue gas

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