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n. facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service
Usage examples of "gas system".
Common problems demonstrated in service were things ranging from something as simple as the cocking handle being rammed into a tree or stone and bent or broken, to the receiver tube that holds the barrel and gas system in place cracking from the strain of bi-pod use.
A solution was proposed: That the propulsion tanks be connected to the attitude-control gas system –.
No one to put out the fire, got into the gas system and gas mains blew-then a firestorm.
The Stinger missile crewman pulled a large lever down with his right thumb, which activated the battery and charged the ejection gas system.
No one to put out the fire, got into the gas system and gas mains blew—.
In a nontech hex it was impossible to manufacture a good compressed-gas system, but as long as the mechanism was totally mechanical, nothing stopped anyone from bringing premanufactured canisters in and having a clean fire.
In a nontech hex it was impossible to manufacture a good compressed-gas system, but as long as the mechanism was totally mechanical, noth.
Black powder would foul such a gas system almost immediately, and cleaner-burning smokeless powder won't be available until very pure acids and reagents are availableprobably at least ten years from 1632.
But if the gas system was eliminated, a human hand could cycle the bolt easily enough.
His work involved the hosepipe, the drains and the gas system, and that night when he slipped down the manhole entrance to the sewer in his wet suit with a large lump of putty in one hand and his torch in the other there was murder in Lockhart's heart.
They are a sort of dial-a-recoil gas system, to minimize the force with which the shooter would be moved backward in low- or null-gravity fields.
Black powder would foul such a gas system almost immediately, and cleaner-burning smokeless powder won't be available until very pure acids and reagents are available&mdash.
Since every building was heated by the central gas system, usually buildings like this were too hot or too cold.