natural gas

fossil fuel containing a mix of methane and other gases
Product commodity Q40858
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Summary

natural gas is a commodity[1]. It draws 14,111 Wikipedia views per month (commodity category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: fossil fuel[3], fuel gas[4], gas mixture[5]
  • Part of: nonrenewable energy[6]
  • Commons category: Natural gas[7]
  • Has part(s): methane[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Natural gas[9]
  • Commons gallery: Natural gas[10]
  • Product or material produced: electrical energy[11]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: resource=gas[12]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], The New Student's Reference Work[15], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16]
  • Has characteristic: odorlessness[17], colorlessness[18]
  • Different from: gas[19]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000552[20]
  • Permanent duplicated item: natural gas[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22], WikiProject Climate change[23]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for natural gas include Gas City[24], a city in the United States[25], in United States[26], founded in 1867[27] and Gas[28], a city in the United States[29], in United States[30], founded in 1898[31].

Why It Matters

natural gas has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include Gas City[24], a city in the United States[25], in United States[26], founded in 1867[27] and Gas[28], a city in the United States[29], in United States[30], founded in 1898[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs'
    Subclass of → fossil fuel, fuel gas, gas mixture
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: gas mixture"
  2. 19d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 90290
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Zvg number: 90290, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P679]]"
  3. 22d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 90290
    Wikidata description → fossil fuel containing a mix of methane and other gases
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Zvg number: 090290, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275042|batch #275042]]"
  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → WGvPg, 1BIRFI
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → natural-gas
    Svkkl authority id → h0004855-zemni-plyn
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: natural-gas, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951968|natural gas (#289951968)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
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