What is "pressurize"

Usage examples of "pressurize".

As the hydrogenator was being sealed up and pressurized, money was already being collected.

Others would throw bursts of hot plasma through a ram field, or carbon vapor to produce sudden surges in the burn rate, or half a ton of pressurized radon gas in a stasis field.

They were more airplane than spaceship, for, although each was sealed and pressurized to operate outside the atmosphere while making contact with orbiting spaceships, each was winged and was powered with ramjet atmosphere engines as well as with rocket jets.

Nick recalled seeing a few lines in the paper: Robert Senn, 48, president of Senn Industries, a Swiss manufacturer of light firearms, pressurized aerosol containers, and ventilation systems, died when the plane in which he was traveling, a Gulfstream IV belonging to Senn Industries, crashed shortly after takeoff from Grozny, Chechnya.

The understrappers are told to pressurize and a flood of protest reaches various officials of the Central Government.

The official name was pressurized vehicle for extended extravehicular traversea PVEETbut nobody could even agree on how to pronounce that one, and people giggled every time the acronym was used.

Counting Mahnmut, there were five Galilean moravecs in the pressurized gathering chamber atop the slab zone.

Which is why the transverse personnel tubes located midline above the shuttle docking points are pressurized as is the engine control room, maintenance, crew quarters and the main control room.

Once the tube was locked and pressurized, Beth, Gari, and Navar came rushing in to greet the returning hero.

Until a few years ago, it was presumed that the interior of ocean rock was nonporous and much too hot and pressurized to sustain life.

One of the most memorable products was a torch fueled by distilled water The product, called the Aqua Torch, was a safe alternative to traditional welders or soldering tools, which required the storage of pressurized gas as fuel.

At the front was her small pressurized hab compartment, and there were two pallets at the rear fitted with a bunch of instruments that would be deployed at the neutron star: coronagraphs, spectroheliographs, spectrographic telescopes.

Four splayfooted legs surrounded a rocket motor with a pressurized cabin on top.

Marines, equipped with bows and arrows and airguns, and wearing oxygen masks, will be loaded into gliders with pressurized cabins.

Mount Everestat one-third the height of Olympus Monsor balloonists in pressurized gondolas at fifteen or twenty miles up.