gaseous

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This gaseous mercury has been found to infiltrate the forest through pores in plant leaves, according to research published in Nature Communications last year.

From Reuters

Nearly five times as big as Earth, it’s one of the few ultrahot, gaseous exoplanets of this size that scientists have discovered.

From New York Times

Then there's the theory of gravitational instability, which is when large dense fragments of dust and gas around a star contract and collapse, due to gravity, to form large gaseous planets like Jupiter.

From Salon

In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.

From New York Times

Past studies suggested the gaseous plumes from volcanic eruptions could produce La Niña–like conditions by reflecting sunlight and cooling the surface.

From Science Magazine