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  2. MythBusters (2008 season) - Wikipedia

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    The Build Team then fired armor-piercing rifle rounds at a tank filled with propane, but they could not get the tank to explode. Not even tracer rounds were successful. Finally, the Build Team resorted to extreme measures in the form of high explosives and an 7.62mm Dillon Aero M134 minigun firing a mix of tracer and incendiary rounds at the ...

  3. MythBusters (2015 season) - Wikipedia

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    Jamie connected the breech to a propane tank and set up a spark generator as the ignition system. Their first trials, with a 5-second propane charge, failed to ignite; Adam realized that the fuel/air mixture contained too much propane to be flammable. When they used a 1-second charge, the mixture ignited but the plank projectile remained in place.

  4. List of MythBusters episodes - Wikipedia

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    Can a bullet from a 9 mm handgun ignite a propane tank? Can a watch-sized electromagnet deflect a bullet? Can a speed boat jump off of a ramp, land in the water, and continue to operate safely? Note: This is a special James Bond-theme episode.

  5. Crest House - Wikipedia

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    On 1 September 1979, an employee of a propane company failed to secure a safety valve while filling a propane tank on site, and fire broke out. All the occupants were evacuated safely, and although the volunteer fire department from Idaho Springs responded quickly, high winds and a lack of water hampered their efforts to contain the fire.

  6. Destroyed in Seconds - Wikipedia

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    One tank is launched into the sky like a rocket, landing 75 yards away. A second tank blows off its lid and it rolls 60 feet away. Paris, France – The Paris Air Show. A Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet attempts a downward spiral, but it cannot recover and the tail nozzle scraps the ground causing the plane to catch fire as it struggles to stay airborne.

  7. Natural gas storage - Wikipedia

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    LNG storage tanks possess a number of advantages over underground storage. As a liquid at approximately −163 °C (−260 °F), it occupies about 600 times less space than gas stored underground, and it provides high deliverability at very short notice because LNG storage facilities are generally located close to market and can be trucked to ...

  8. Gas cylinder - Wikipedia

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    The term cylinder in this context is sometimes confused with tank, the latter being an open-top or vented container that stores liquids under gravity, though the term scuba tank is commonly used to refer to a compressed gas cylinder used for breathing gas supply to an underwater breathing apparatus.

  9. External floating roof tank - Wikipedia

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    An external floating roof tank is a storage tank commonly used to store large quantities of petroleum products such as crude oil or condensate. It consists of an open- topped cylindrical steel shell equipped with a roof that floats on the surface of the stored liquid. The roof rises and falls with the liquid level in the tank. [1]

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