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no-su'ma · W115

nosu'ma · gas (material state) · ⏳

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Domain physical / chemistry
Class material quality / state
Type compound
Register standard
First use pending corpus attestation

Composition

no (negation/absence) + su (structure) + ma (matter) = unstructured matter. The negation of organized form applied to matter: matter without fixed structural arrangement.

Definition

gas; matter in its unstructured, expansive state; the physical state of matter with neither fixed shape nor fixed volume, expanding to fill any container.

Notes

no-su = absence of structure, the negation of su. The no-* productive pattern (no-lu = dark, no-ki = still, no-be = erosion, no-ko = uncontained, S293–S303) extends here to no-su = structureless. no-su'ma is the general gaseous state; specific gas substances follow the same discriminator pattern: no-su'ma-ki = steam/water vapor (structureless water-matter) would be the water-gas form, parallel to su'ma-ki (ice = structured water-matter). Contrast with no-ko'ma-ki (rain = uncontained water, S303): that compound's no-ko discriminates containment, not structure. For bulk gaseous state, the defining absence is structural organization, not just containment — no-su'ma is the correct form.

su'ma (W113: solid), ki'ma (W114: liquid), ma-ra (W116: plasma), no (primitive: negation), su (primitive), ma (primitive), no-ko'ma-ki (rain, structurally distinct)

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