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Gas giant — A gas giant (sometimes also known as a Jovian planet after the planet Jupiter, or giant planet) is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. There are four gas giants in our Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus … Wikipedia
gas giant — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms gas giant : singular gas giant plural gas giants astronomy a large planet such as Jupiter or Saturn that consists mainly of hydrogen and helium … English dictionary
gas giant — noun any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter) • Syn: ↑Jovian planet • Hypernyms: ↑planet, ↑major planet • Instance Hyponyms: ↑Jupiter, ↑Neptune, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
gas giant — /ˈgæs dʒaɪənt/ (say gas juyuhnt) noun a large planet, such as Jupiter, that is primarily composed of gas, or gas in liquid state, the gas being mostly hydrogen and helium. Compare terrestrial planet …
Gas (disambiguation) — Gas may refer to: Science and technology: gases and liquids * Gas, one of the phases of matter * Gasoline, a refined fossil fuel, also called petrol * Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also called cooking gas , which includes propane and butane *… … Wikipedia
Gas torus — A gas torus is a toroidal cloud of gas or plasma that encircles a planet. In Earth s solar system, gas tori tend to be produced by the interaction of a satellite s atmosphere with the magnetic field of a planet. The most famous example of this is … Wikipedia
Giant Black Rat — Giant black rats are a fictional species of ferocious radiation spawned rodents featured in James Herbert s horror novels The Rats which was first published in 1974, Lair in 1979 and Domain in 1985. They would later appear in the graphic novel… … Wikipedia
Giant oil and gas fields — The world s 932 giant oil and gas fields are considered those with 500 million barrels of ultimately recoverable oil or gas equivalent. [Halbouty, M (2001). [http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/halbouty03/index.htm Giant Oil and Gas… … Wikipedia
Giant Eagle — Infobox Company company name = Giant Eagle, Inc. company company type = Private company slogan = Make every day taste better foundation = 1931 industry = Retail (Grocery) location = key people = David Shapira, President and CEO num employees = 25 … Wikipedia
Giant impact hypothesis — Big splash redirects here. For other uses, see Big Splash (disambiguation). Artist s depiction of the giant impact that is hypothesized to have formed the Moon The giant impact hypothesis proposes that the Moon was created out of the debris left… … Wikipedia
