{
  "id": "gas.state",
  "term": "gas",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "gas",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a substance that flows through space and remains moving",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "space.extent",
      "motion.movement",
      "flow.movement",
      "persist.continue",
      "substance.material"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter as a persistent substance moves through space via collective flow, sustained by ongoing motion.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "continuous flow",
      "persistent form",
      "distributed motion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Sun's corona continuously emits plasma that flows outward as solar wind across the solar system.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Steam from a ruptured boiler valve at the Fukushima Daiichi plant dispersed into the atmosphere in 2011.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Methane from thawing permafrost in Siberia rises into the air, detected by satellite monitoring since 2019.",
      "domain": "environment"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "matter.substance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "fluid.liquid",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "gas",
    "gases",
    "gassed",
    "gasses",
    "gassing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete—emergence record lacked key constitutive concepts like flow and persistence. Added missing components to align record with correct, extant definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gas.state"
}