Ames, city, Story county, central Iowa, U.S., on the South Skunk River, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Des Moines. It was laid out in 1865 and was originally called College Farm but was renamed the …

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How Natural Gas Formed Natural gas often formed along with petroleum (oil) hundreds of millions of years ago. As plants and tiny animals died, their remains built up in many layers. Underground …

Dec 26, 2025 · A solution of hydrogen fluoride gas in water is called hydrofluoric acid, large quantities of which are consumed in industry for cleaning metals and for polishing, frosting, and etching glass. …

Dec 7, 2025 · The gas flows under pressure through bundles of tiny hollow polyester fibres through whose walls the hydrogen passes. The largest single use of hydrogen in the world is in ammonia …

Producer gas, mixture of flammable gases (principally carbon monoxide and hydrogen) and nonflammable gases (mainly nitrogen and carbon dioxide) made by the partial combustion of …

The university was chartered in 1858 as Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm. Made a land-grant institution in 1864, the college was one of the first schools to benefit from the Morrill Act of 1862.

Dec 25, 2025 · Natural gas - Fossil Fuel, Hydrocarbons, Methane: Natural gas is more ubiquitous than oil. It is derived from both land plants and aquatic organic matter and is generated above, …

Gas, one of the three fundamental states of matter, with distinctly different properties from the liquid and solid states. The remarkable feature of gases is that they appear to have no structure at all.