flotation tank

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noun

an enclosed ventilated tank filled with a saline solution at body temperature, in which a person floats in darkness in order to relax or meditate

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How to use flotation tank in a sentence

“The events this year with Ukraine led to his ties with Cato being severed,” a source at the think tank told The Daily Beast.
Vaclav Klaus, Libertarian Hero, Has His Wings Clipped by Cato Institute|James Kirchick|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tank Battle Kim's death -- a clean version of Kim's Face shot (no head burning or head exploding).
Sony Emails Show How the Studio Plans to Censor Kim Jong Un Assassination Comedy ‘The Interview’|William Boot|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tank Battle Jeep Guard Crush -- some editorial changes and the removal of all blood when the guards are crushed by the tank.
Sony Emails Show How the Studio Plans to Censor Kim Jong Un Assassination Comedy ‘The Interview’|William Boot|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And he would especially like American FGM-148 Javelins, man-portable anti-tank missiles to hit at Russian armor.
Should the U.S. Arm Ukraine’s Militias?|Jamie Dettmer|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

As they passed the runway, bullets shot up from the tall grass, puncturing a fuel tank.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis|Nina Strochlic|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is of the vertical kind, and stands on a shallow square tank, which forms the hot well.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
On one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
A single oar used rather as rudder than paddle guides the tank to the middle of the stream, where it floats to its destination.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
No shooting and they would be miles away before they stopped rubbing their eyes in that one water-tank burg.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
But this mercury flotation, as applied to the Crossley telescope, is a delusion, as I think Mr. Crossley had already found.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters|James Edward Keeler