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/ɡæˈsɑmɪtɚ/ · noun
(chemistry, historical) An apparatus used to store or measure gas or the flow of gas, particularly in a laboratory setting..
I take a mercury bottle and then an old gun barrel, draw the breech end to a convenient size to cut a thread on it so as to make a tight joint; then take a lead tube and connect one end to the muzzle of the gun barrel and the other end to the gasometer.
The collected air was metered through a gasometer, and the composition of every gas sample was analyzed in duplicate […]
The attack on the gasworks was probably the most risky, as none of the rebels had any idea of just what kind of blast an exploding gasometer might produce […]
Use gasometer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gasometer means (chemistry, historical) An apparatus used to store or measure gas or the flow of gas, particularly in a laboratory setting..
Common synonyms include gas meter, gas holder.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I take a mercury bottle and then an old gun barrel, draw the breech end to a convenient size to cut a thread on it so as to make a tight joint; then take a lead tube and connect one end to the muzzle of the gun barrel and the other end to the gasometer.
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