A device or apparatus that converts solid or liquid materials into gas through chemical or thermal processes.
From 'gasify' (to convert to gas) plus the agent suffix '-er' (one that does); emerged as an engineering term in the 1800s for industrial equipment.
Modern wood gasifiers are helping off-grid communities generate electricity and heat from agricultural waste, proving that this 200-year-old technology is still solving 21st-century energy problems.
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