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2. Jerrycan - Wikipedia

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   A jerrycan or jerrican (also styled jerry can or jerri can) [1] is a fuel container made from pressed steel (and more recently, high density polyethylene). It was designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold 20 litres (4.4 imp gal; 5.3 US gal) of fuel, and saw widespread use by both Germany and the Allies during the Second World War .

3. Flimsy - Wikipedia

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   An alternative use for discarded fuel cans was to fill them with sand and use them to reinforce the walls of dugouts. [6] Both 4 gallon flimsies and the original 2 gallon cans were replaced by the jerrycan, copied from the much better German design of fuel container. This happened gradually from late 1940, first from captured stock of German ...

4. Fuel container - Wikipedia

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   Various fuel cans in Germany, including red plastic containers and green metal jerrycans. One US gallon (3.79 litres) of gas in an F-style can A group of 25 kg (55 lb) liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders in Malta. A fuel container is a container such as a steel can, bottle, drum, etc. for transporting, storing, and dispensing various fuels.

5. Benghazi burner - Wikipedia

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   The Benghazi burner had the advantages that it was silent, fast and that empty cans, sand and fuel were readily available in the desert. [4] The disadvantage was that it was unpredictable and the fuel would often burn out too early; it was tempting to add petrol to the hot sand with explosive results. [ 5 ]

6. Aluminum cans to jet fuel: inflation dominates U.S. corporate ...

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   Executives at U.S. companies including Monster Beverage and American Airlines have stressed on higher costs for everything from labor to raw materials in the last few days, pointing to more price ...

7. Steel and tin cans - Wikipedia

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   The can saw very little change since then, although better technology brought 20% reduction in the use of steel, and 50% - in the use of tin [7] (the modern cans are 99.5% steel). [ 9 ] Canned food in tin cans was already quite popular in various countries when technological advancements in the 1920s lowered the cost of the cans even further.