Lurgi

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Lurgi can refer to:

  • Lurgi AG (formerly, Metallurgische Gesellschaft), a German chemical and construction company that was bought by Air Liquide
  • Lurgi–Ruhrgas process for making gas from carbonaceous fuel under high pressure
  • Lurgi generator - a device used to produce gas from coal (see Gasification)
  • the dreaded lurgi, a fictional disease invented on The Goon Show
    • since used as slang for illness in British English
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