Aft of Stores, I heard the whistle of escaping air and high pressure gasses from ruptured lines.
"Greylorn"
John Keith Laumer
Louis and Clark, the very men I'd read about in gasses Journal, how I wished their eyes could see and their ears hear me.
"Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition"
Marietta Holley
As in fermentation, spontaneous or excited, there is a sensible escape of carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, it may not be improper to note, that fermentable, or saccharine matter, consists of about twenty-eight pounds of carbon, eight pounds of hydrogen, and sixty-four pounds of oxygen, reducible into fixed, inflammable, and vital air, weighing one hundred subtile pounds in toto, or that every one hundred subtile pounds of saccharine matter consists of such proportions of these airs and gasses.
"The American Practical Brewer and Tanner"
Joseph Coppinger