Chapter

 1 II    | interlaced against the walls. The gas lit up in full glare myriads
 2 II    |           a balloon filled with a gas extracted from nitrogen,
 3 VII   |        resist the pressure of the gas. The problem, therefore,
 4 VIII  |     increase the detention of the gas accumulated behind the projectile;
 5 VIII  |       will be no loss whatever of gas, and all the expansive force
 6 IX    |         it produces 400 litres of gas. This gas, on being liberated
 7 IX    |           400 litres of gas. This gas, on being liberated and
 8 IX    |        powder is to the volume of gas produced by its combustion
 9 IX    |       tremendous pressure on this gas when compressed within a
10 IX    |          than long enough for the gas to communicate to the projectile
11 IX    |           6,000,000,000 litres of gas. Six thousand millions!
12 IX    |           6,000,000,000 litres of gas before taking its flight
13 X     |        resist the pressure of the gas developed by the ignition
14 XIV   |           to permit the escape of gas during the operation of
15 XXIII |       were procurable by means of gas, contained in a special
16 XXIII |        tap, and for six hours the gas would light and warm this
17 XXIII |           by the carbonic acid— a gas fatal to life. There were
18 XXVIII|         six billions of litres of gas in rear of the projectile,
19 XXVIII|        water for some months, and gas for some days. A self-acting
20 I     |          us try and see a little. Gas was not invented for moles.”~
21 I     |          days and six nights. The gas caught fire, and thus lighted
22 I     |     Barbicane quickly put out the gas and lay down by his companions,
23 I     |         six billions of litres of gas, developed by the combustion
24 II    |          not suffered at all. The gas had not escaped. Besides,
25 II    |         filled with hydrogen. The gas mixing with the air would
26 II    |       economical man, put out the gas, now useless, and whose
27 III   |        which raised no rival. The gas gave sufficient heat for
28 III   |           heat. It economizes the gas, which is in every respect
29 III   |    consumed a certain quantity of gas, for they were obliged to
30 III   |     charged with this deleterious gas. Nicholl discovered the
31 III   |         from the presence of this gas. But Captain Nicholl hastened
32 VII   |      liquefied by the heat of the gas; nothing better than the
33 VII   |         regulated the heat of the gas by the pyrometer. Everything
34 VIII  |        was allowing the colorless gas to escape freely, life-giving,
35 VIII  |     tasted a little of this heady gas. Do you know, my friends,
36 VIII  |        under the influence of the gas; you are always foolish!”~“
37 XIV   |           might be to husband the gas, the reserve of which was
38 XIV   |         which forces us to expend gas, instead of giving us his
39 XIV   |      having begged light from the gas, was also obliged to beg
40 XV    |            in some days, when the gas failed, they would die from
41 XV    |           it was to economize the gas, the excessive lowness of
42 XVII  |           for economy’s sake, the gas was put out, the air apparatus
43 XVII  |    blacken their glasses with the gas smoke before they could
44 XIX   |         match to the flame of the gas.~“Wait!” said Barbicane,