gasholder
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: gasometer. a large tank for storing coal gas or natural gas prior to distribution to users
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any vessel for storing or measuring a gas
Example Sentences
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A terrible Swiss gig in a disused gasholder inspired them to give up.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2013
On leaving the purifiers it flows into the gasometer, or gasholder, the huge cake-like form of which is a very familiar object in the environs of towns.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
When the gasholder is perfectly empty, the three lifts are inclosed, one in the other, and rest with their lower edges upon the bottom of the tank.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various
The discharging mechanism is operated through an arm E attached to the bell G of the gasholder, which sets the mechanism in motion when the bell has fallen nearly to its lowest position.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
The tank for the gasholder is usually made by excavating a circular reservoir somewhat larger in diameter than the proposed holder.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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