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n. A container of fuel, especially one inside a vehicle.
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A fuel tank (or petrol tank) is a safe container for flammable fluids. Though any storage tank for fuel may be so called, the term is typically applied to part of an engine system in which the fuel is stored and propelled ( fuel pump) or released (pressurized gas) into an engine. Fuel tanks range in size and complexity from the small plastic tank of a butane lighter to the multi-chambered cryogenic Space Shuttle external tank.
Usage examples of "fuel tank".
Paint blazed an instant before the armor collapsed and a fuel tank ruptured in a belch of flame.
When it first ignited, the ruptured fuel tank engulfed the rear half of the bus.
Thinking quickly, Hunter swerved and fired his cannon straight into the guts of the MiG keying in on Wa, ripping away the enemy's right wheel undercarriage and perforating its mid-fuselage fuel tank.
The coldhearts had to have raided every fuel tank in the place to get this much gas.
Fire behind the aircraft couldn't hurt anyone, and the vented fuel tank didn't explode, as it might have done had it been hit as little as ten minutes earlier.
A five-ton flatbed truck also had been conveyed with the ranch--a diesel, conveniently enough--along with a buried two-thousand-gallon fuel tank right by the barn.
Tightening the vapor cap on the fuel tank of the LAV 25, he locked the protective shutter into place and patted the heavy metal shielding with an open palm.
A Sherman would have brewed up a hell of a lot faster than it did, but eventually its ammunition and its fuel tank went up in a spectacular blast.
This time the cannon fire found its intended target, the chopper's fuel tank.