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gasometer

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From French gazomètre, corresponding to gas +‎ -o- +‎ -meter.

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gasometer (plural gasometers)

  1. (chemistry, historical) An apparatus used to store or measure gas or the flow of gas, particularly in a laboratory setting. [from 18th c.]
    • 2012, Holger Ursin, Psychobiology of Stress: A Study of Coping Men, →ISBN, page 85:
      The collected air was metered through a gasometer, and the composition of every gas sample was analyzed in duplicate []
  2. A large tank or reservoir for storing gas; a gasholder. [from 19th c.]
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books, published 2006, page 93:
      The attack on the gasworks was probably the most risky, as none of the rebels had any idea of just what kind of blast an exploding gasometer might produce []

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