How to Use outgas in a Sentence
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This activity likely took the form of outgassing jets—as the comet approached the sun, the star’s heat would have caused frozen ices to become gas.
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Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2026
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And why don’t all outgassing objects that emit carbon dioxide also show signatures of water?
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Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
26 Aug. 2025
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Jewitt thinks that outgassing from the surface of the comet, which heated up during its perihelion passage that brings it about as close to the sun as Earth, is the cause.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The extra heating from the sun had warmed the comet’s surface, increasing the amount of outgassing from the comet, but the level of outgassing was beginning to decrease as the comet moved away.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
5 June 2026
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Even if a harvester can outgas regolith reliably, separating minute traces of helium-3 from helium-4 and other gases at low mass fractions requires sophisticated cryogenic or membrane systems.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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Like most comets, 3I/ATLAS does experience slight non-gravitational forces caused by outgassing — when sunlight heats the comet’s surface, jets of gas and dust can push it gently.
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Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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