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n. (petrol tank English)
Usage examples of "petrol tanks".
The weight thus saved was considerable, and had been replaced by additional cylinders of compressed hydrogen and supplementary petrol tanks.
Around the fire were livestock pens, lorries and tractors, water and petrol tanks, barn, garage, shed.
The chances against the petrol tanks not erupting in searing flame or of the bomb not exploding were so remote as not to exist: but neither happened.
It was a fantastically beautiful spectacle, but I'd had time to watch it for barely ten seconds when the dazzling coloured irradiation turned into a blaze of white, the central flame leapt up to twice, almost three times its original height and, two or three seconds later, the roar of the exploding petrol tanks came at me across the frozen stillness of the ice-cap.
The petrol tanks, too, were intact, protected by the deep skirts of mild steel, added to guard against crossbow bolts.
The petrol tanks, even though they were below street level, blew instantly and Howard's and the motorist's bodies - as well as the bodies of everyone around them - were seared to the bones.
It was risky, especially considering he'd been out just that previous evening, putting sugar in car and motorbike petrol tanks, but it might be a good idea anyway.
When the lights of the place appeared in view Joe slowed down and brought his car to a stop about a hundred feet from one of the petrol tanks.
I kept the Land-Rover, making sure the petrol tanks were full, and there were twenty-five gallons in the emergency cans.
Fogerty's finest fled as police-car tyres shredded, bonnets were torn asunder and petrol tanks exploded.
Those devices are quite small and can easily be concealed in what looks like a couple of extra long-range petrol tanks.
The centre of Birmingham had been gutted by fire and the inferno was still raging unchecked, mostly spread by exploding petrol tanks in abandoned vehicles.
Several were burning, petrol tanks exploding, a frightened crowd gathered on the far side, just watching.