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gas shell

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Noun1.gas shellgas shell - (military) bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes
bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"


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Also, because antibubbles rise relatively slowly, there's extra time for interactions with molecules on both sides of the gas shell.
Starrfield of Arizona State University in Tempe and his colleagues, who are studying the nova's spectra with the IUE, report that light emissions from iron now mask the presence of other elements in the newly ejected gas shell.
The evidence is a glowing cloud of gas, roughly the size of our solar system, surrounding a star that has clearly been a white dwarf for a long time because it also sits at the center of a much wider, fainter, older gas shell.
 
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