24letters. Online magazine for Closs, her Ιstory and him Pholism. The word of the week from the 24letters: What is the relationship between chaos, the throttle, and the gazosa; Presentation in a few words: The word gas is derived from the ancient Greek word Chaos. Strangeness; Not so much, just follow the simple lessons of mythology: According to Hesiod , chaos is defined as the primary principle, but not as an abstract concept but as a dark space full of clouds. On the contrary, the Orphic cosmogony admits chaos as the second principle of the world after Time. Plato states that Eros was born from Chaos (spit on his father, this Love). 24letters That's all good, someone would say. But, what do they have to do with gas?; Until the 1640 absolutely none. That year, a genius Flemish "chemist", Van Helmond (Johann Batista Helmont, 1577- 1644) succeeded in making a combustible mixture of gases (carbon monoxide and CO, CO2, the free gas, gas sylvestre). Except that, still, he didn't know what to call it. It was borrowed, Well, the Greek word chaos, to denote the amorphous and undefined mass of the gas (gas), because that's how he imagined chaos to be (χάος >caos > gaos > gas) . Στη συνέχεια παρήχθησαν όλες οι λέξεις που αναφέρονται στο αέριο > γκαζ, primus, gas bottle, soda but also carbonated drinks such as soda (24letters). Now, how from gas (gas) we were driven to the gas of the car (I'm gasping, gassy, the throttle, the throttles); That's why gas stoves are responsible (gas-producing) cars we had in our country, during the German occupation (they were burning gas, due to lack of oil). So, giving gas to the engine was equivalent to giving fuel to the engine to accelerate. Hesiod, theogony,116. Plato, Symposium 178. Report of l. chaos as nebulous gas is also done in the : Aristophanes (Chickens, 192, 1218), Virgil (Ecloghe,VI,31), Ovid (Metamorphosis), but also in the Gospel according to Luke ( 16, 26). J. B. Van Helmont, The rise of medicine, Amsterdam 1652. On the pages 59, 86 assumes the authorship of the term and admits the relationship with l. Chaos. The text is in Latin : that breath, I called the gas, not far from the chaos of the old secret. Read on 24letters about the strange history of the word chaos, as well as the relevant bibliography (George Damianos).
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