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shock tube

noun

  1. an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The Rogan leader, two of his surviving arms propping feebly against the bench, was pointing a shock-tube squarely at him!

While the Rogan leader was still several feet away, she retrieved the shock-tube.

A panicky policeman triggered it, firing his Aztlan-built shock tube into the forefront of the mob.

With a cry, Dex dashed the useless shock-tube down on the reaching arms.

As he walked he kept his gaze covertly on that shock-tube that dangled in the leader's grasp.

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