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steam

Dry, invisible gas formed by vaporizing water. The visible cloud that normally forms in the air when water is vaporized is due to minute suspended water particles. Steam is widely used in chemical and other industrial processes and for the generation of power.



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- THE STEAM LAUNCH, USEFUL RECEIPTS FOR ANNOYING AND HINDERING IT.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
A second inscription above the door informed us that a steam launch was kept,--a statement which was confirmed by a great pile of coke upon the jetty.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
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