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- noun Plural form of
gasometer .
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Examples
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Very few of those that survive are in use; some, such as the King's Cross gasometers, are set to be converted into flats or in the case of the last to come down a park.
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The last of the great gasometers which cast their shadows over this bit of north London for a century and a half has been taken down.
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Looking south and across the canal vast gasometers rise and fall in the distance behind the tombstones.
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For a hundred years or so, Vienna invested in coal/gas energy, but when the plant wasdecommissioned there were four large gasometers remaining.
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You can find another use of old gasometers in Leipzig and Dresden in Germany.
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Looking south and across the canal vast gasometers rise and fall in the distance behind the tombstones.
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Listed by English Heritage, which is insisting on their reconstruction nearby, the King's Cross gasometers were the finest examples of a very simple piece of technology.
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You can find another use of old gasometers in Leipzig and Dresden in Germany.
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There were huge tanks, like gasometers, dotted around the perimeter, each labelled with a skull and crossbones.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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My mates and I watched, thrilled, as the fierce jet of flame thundered from a ruptured pipe directly on to one of the gasometers, blistering the paint and turning the metal beneath it a dull red.
Fathers & Sons Richard Madeley 2008
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