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189 months ago

Maik Schröder (a guest user) asked this question:

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189 months ago

Rupert Kindermann   wrote:

air can only hold a certain amount of (gasous) water (OR: in gaseous form)

My comment:

I think your original idea is the best. "Gaseous" is commonly used in English and it definitely can also be used as an Adverb (gaseously), but I would say it is not very common.

My references:

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=gasf%F6rmig&relink=on

189 months ago

Uta Haubold   wrote:

dissolved aerially

189 months ago

Robert Tucker   wrote:

made to hold as vapour

My comment:

Air can only hold a certain amount of water (or air can only be made to hold a certain amount of water)

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/Kinetic/relhum.html

N.B: This is not really a scientific statement, see:
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~stevenb/vapor/index.html

but then I'm not too sure the use of the German lösen here is either.

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189 months ago

Robert Tucker   wrote:

[a certain amount of water] is dissolved as gas particles

My comment:

Water can exist as water itself, aerosols, vapour, etc.

189 months ago

daniela   wrote:

gas dissolution

My comment:

there can be dissolved only a certain amount of water into gas