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- noun Alternative form of
gasometer .
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gas + -metre
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Examples
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Those lamps were fueled by a "gasometre", a giant tank where coal reacted with steam to form "town gas" that then was piped all the way to each street lamp (that old gasometre still stands, nearly forgotten, in a public garden in Florence).
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future Ugo Bardi 2010
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Those lamps were fueled by a "gasometre", a giant tank where coal reacted with steam to form "town gas" that then was piped all the way to each street lamp (that old gasometre still stands, nearly forgotten, in a public garden in Florence).
The Oil Drum: Europe - Analysis and Discussion of the European Energy Gap and Peak Oil Ugo Bardi 2010
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