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gas cylinder
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gas cylinder [′gas ‚sil·ən·dər]
(mechanical engineering)
The chamber in which a piston moves in a positive displacement engine or compressor.
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Spare air bottles should also be taken down and tied to the wreck to cover an emergency problem, which would prevent rapid surfacing and the bends problem to another diver, as in the Malta case.
Letter: Your Say - Diving tragedy by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Complete with a self-contained air system for refilling air bottles, the truck helps students develop several competencies within the career education program, including incident command training and fitness testing.
Bates Technical College by Community College Week
The idea is to provide fire crews with a nearby place to refill their air bottles during an emergency, eliminating the need for firefighters to lug the bottles up and down the stairs.
I n c a s e y o u m i s s e d i t by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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