(1) Landmark Victorian gasholders have also been sold off by National Grid to make way for new homes.
Gasometer
Definition:
(n.) An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required.
Example Sentences:
(1) A gasometer was used to measure inspired ventilation and the analog signals from the two gas analyzers and the gasometer were sent to a microcomputer for computation of VO2.
(2) The precision of available gasometers can scarcely ever be reduced beyond plus or minus 1% of the volume which is to be measured.
(3) It serves next as an axenic growth chamber and at the same time as a gasometer.
(4) Two precalibrated DTM-325 dry gas meters (American Meter Co., Philadelphia, PA, USA) were therefore tested for accuracy against a 350 l Collins chain-compensated gasometer.
(5) We also compared it to the Natelson gasometer and a modified continuous-flow (AutoAnalyzer) technique for measurement of carbon dioxide in serum.
(6) Sitting and standing pulmonary ventilations were determined through the use of the Tissot gasometer.
(7) "The facade recalls the industrial gasometers as well the history of the jewellery trade here."