gas chamber
an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
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For example, some scientists extended a cut tree’s life by locking it in a gas chamber and exposing it to 1-methlocyclopropene gas.
How to keep a Christmas tree fresh for as long as possible | Dan Seitz | November 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceYou see gas chambers, crematoriums, bodies are being burned.
Video Games May Be Key to Keeping World War II Memory Alive. Here Are 5 WWII Games Worth Playing, According to a Historian | Olivia B. Waxman | August 27, 2020 | TimeWe drive past a small pond of foamy water where they dumped the ashes, to gas chamber and Crematorium II.
Across from this display is a clay diorama of a gas chamber in action.
Then I let out the gas chamber to its fullest extent and rose.
Tono Bungay | H. G. Wells
I did not care to risk contracting our gas chamber for fear of losing gas.
Tono Bungay | H. G. WellsThe line advanced slowly, like a gang of criminals going to the gas chamber.
A Thought For Tomorrow | Robert E. GilbertAs Tom Swift said, his new silencer had literally blown up, a large piece having been torn from the gas chamber.
Tom Swift and his Air Scout | Victor AppletonDoyle was slated for a ride down the elevator that night to the death cell behind the gas chamber.
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British Dictionary definitions for gas chamber
an airtight room into which poison gas is introduced to kill people or animals
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