gas-filled
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lleno de gas
- GDTs (gas-filled discharge tubes) handle huge currents, but their delayed firing lets through large impulses before they turn on.
- gas-filled separator
Examples
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Some plastic scintillators can also detect neutrons, but more often, RPMs with large 3He gas-filled detectors are used for that job.
Academic text (2004) -
The gas-filled separator at the Berkeley 88-inch cyclotron is used to search for superheavy nuclei.
Academic text (2002) -
Birch told himself it was no worse than the gas-filled tunnels they had crawled through in training at Fort Dix.
Fiction book (1992) -
The illuminator uses a 5-V AC gas-filled lamp that has a standard life of 15,000 hours.
Academic text (1996) -
Then he crawled to the opening, kicked rats from the wooden ladder, and began his descent into the yellow gloom of the gas-filled chamber.
Fiction book (1992) -
"When you’re dealing with a complicated apparatus like the gas-filled separator, you tend to trust the group’s best guy to do it right," he told us.
Academic text (2002) -
Many fish, such as the goldfish, have a special swim bladder, a gas-filled sac that helps them maintain buoyancy.
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For better energy efficiency, consider installing gas-filled windows that provide improved insulation.
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The scientists observed that the plant's roots developed gas-filled spaces to enhance oxygen transport.
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Etymology
Gas-filled combines gas and filled and literally means 'filled with gas' instead of with liquid or solid. Think of a 'water-filled' bottle but with gas inside, so a gas-filled bulb or balloon contains gas that changes how it works.