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Gas cylinder

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Gas cylinders are used to store compresed gases or compressed air.

One familiar sort of gas cylinder is described in Diving cylinder.

They are also used on land to store gases for many purposes in industry and medicine.

They are familiar in the oxyacetylene torch.

Industrial cylinders usually have different valves from diving cylinders.

Gas cylinders are often color coded. See Bottled gas.

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