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expansion chamber

noun

, Physics.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of expansion chamber1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

She said it’s important to avoid filling the expansion chamber more than two-thirds full.

“First, you can heat some water to boiling and slowly immerse the bulb into the water and watch the liquid go up the capillary to connect with the fluid already in the expansion chamber,” Cross wrote in an email.

She must have just been in the neural expansion chamber: she still wore a sensor headdress across her scalp, the leads drooping across the up-turned collar of her lab coat.

From Nature

The system is hermetically sealed after being pumped full of water, an expansion chamber in the shape of a pipe of larger dimensions being provided at the top of the system above the highest point of circulation.

Upon the application of heat to the fire-box coil the water naturally expands and forces its way up into the expansion chamber; but there it encounters the pressure of the confined air, and ebullition is consequently prevented.

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