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Definition of Gasometers
1. gasometer [n] - See also: gasometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasometers
Literary usage of Gasometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1849)
"The object of these improvements in gasometers is to supersede the use of water
tanks. The top and bottom of each gasometer is made of angle iron, ..."
2. Treatise on General and Industrial Organic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1921)
"gasometers. These are formed of large sheet-iron bells fitting one in the other
and forming a perfect water-seal when they are inverted in a brick ..."
3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1823)
"to each other than 40 feet, or about a diameter of one of the gasometers ; and that
... I am decidedly of opinion also, that these gasometers should not be ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"The number of gasometers 6, average contents of each 15077 cubic feet; the Contents
of the ... The number of gasometers 12, each averaging 18427 cubic feet, ..."
5. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1815)
"to each other than 40 feet, or about a diameter of one of the gasometers ; and that
... 1 am decidedly of opinion also, that these gasometers should not be ..."
6. The Experimental Study of Gases: An Account of the Experimental Methods by Morris William Travers (1901)
"... and gasometers — Storing and transporting samples of gas—Collecting gases from
natural waters, etc.—Gases evolved during, chemical reactions. ..."
7. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"The City of London Gas-light Company in Dorset-street possessed at the same period
230 fixed retorts, and 8 gasometers, with a cubic content of ..."
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