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Firing chamber   /fˈaɪrɪŋ tʃˈeɪmbər/   Listen
Firing chamber

noun
1.
Chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge.  Synonym: gun chamber.






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"Firing chamber" Quotes from Famous Books



... the professor. He watched the teleceiver screen carefully, made a minute adjustment of the dial controlling the directional beam emitted by the ring in the number-one firing chamber, and at the last possible moment, snapped the remote-control switch that cut the power in the approaching test projectile. It hung dead in space, immediately over the chamber. Gently the professor increased the power of the electro-magnetic ...
— Sabotage in Space • Carey Rockwell

... You could see the water through the transparent handle and about a gill of another liquid, thick and yellowish. When Tweel squeezed the handle—there was no trigger—a drop of water and a drop of the yellow stuff squirted into the firing chamber, and the water vaporized—pop!—like that. It's not so difficult; I think we could develop the same principle. Concentrated sulphuric acid will heat water almost to boiling, and so will quicklime, and ...
— A Martian Odyssey • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum



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