单词 | gasometer |
释义 | gasometern. 1. Chemistry. A piece of laboratory apparatus for holding and measuring gas. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > acetimetry > centrifugation > apparatus gasometer1790 centrifuge1866 azotometer1876 bottle shaker1891 gas centrifuge1919 microcentrifuge1937 1790 R. Kerr tr. A. Lavoisier Elements Chem. 308 I give the name of gazometer to an instrument which I invented..for the purpose of a kind of bellows, which might furnish an uniform and continued stream of oxygen gas in experiments of fusion. 1831 T. P. Jones New Conversat. Chem. Gloss. Gasometer, an air holder, so constructed that the quantity of gas which it contains can be ascertained or measured. 1874 tr. E. Lommel Nature of Light (ed. 4) 6 Through the middle of this runs a..narrow tube, which..conducts oxygen from an adjoining gasometer. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Feb. 19/2 The subject was seated in a large solenoid or cage, and expired through a gasometer. 1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. iii. 126 An array of eudiometers, gasometers, combustion globes and ice calorimeters, which would enable precise quantitative data to be assembled. 2. A large metal tank or reservoir, typically cylindrical, in which fuel gas is stored before being supplied to consumers through pipes. Cf. gas holder n. at gas n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > gas or types of gas > [noun] > storage of gas > receptacle gas holder1800 gasometer1808 gas tank1852 bottle1868 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > receptacle > for liquids > specific gas holder1800 gasometer1808 oilometer1897 1808 W. Murdoch in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 125 The gas..is conveyed by iron pipes into large reservoirs, or gazometers, where it is washed and purified. 1819 F. Accum Descr. Manuf. Coal Gas 164 The name of gas holder, or as it is improperly called, gasometer is given to the vessel employed for collecting the gas and storing it up for use. 1870 Derby Mercury 16 Mar. 7/1 Fears were entertained for the safety of the gasometer situate in the immediate vicinity of the mills. 1922 Mariner's Mirror 8 226 The discovery was made during the construction of a gasometer for the Brigg Gas Company. 1974 K. Tynan Diary 30 Nov. (2001) 207 ‘What's that funny thing over there shaped like a drum?’.. ‘The gasometer. Thing that holds gas.’ 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Mar. 22 The train passes through post-industrial remains—rusty gasometers, empty canals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790 |
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