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n. A cylindrical vessel capable of containing a compressed gas at high pressure.
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A gas cylinder or tank is a pressure vessel used to store gases at above atmospheric pressure. High- pressure gas cylinders are also called bottles.
Usage examples of "gas cylinder".
He left and returned within a minute with a gas cylinder, a welder's rod and a face-mask.
Into the blank spaces of memory slowly crept the picture of an orange gas cylinder in the hands of a figure in a black head-mask with holes cut out for eyes.
There was a splotch of blood on the green metal of the gas cylinder and a matching pressure cut on the back of Bradley's skull, but the sergeant would be all right as soon as he came around.
You have tied the brass nozzle to the grate with wire, pointing it up at the scuffed red wall of the gas cylinder about fifteen centimetres above.
If you went out, you took the pneumo bus or you carried a gas cylinder.
He turned then and, with a grunt, brought out a double compressed-gas cylinder from its rack in one corner of the closet.
Tell 'em we need to bleed off the main natural gas tank at the refinery, into every portable gas cylinder they can lay hands on.
Powers the missile gyro, cools the seeker head, and charges the eject gas cylinder.
Ti-gan loaded a pinpoint flare, attached a high-compression gas cylinder, and, using the rail as a brace, fired where he knew the two mystery creatures to be hiding.
Looking at the gas cylinder, he wondered if the gunmen had been wearing gas filters in their noses.