They are airtight and filled with compressed helium-gas, which is non-inflammable and nearly as light as its highly volatile rival, hydrogen-gas.
The conning tower is an airtight vessel—as far as your model goes—having a conical shape.
And don’t be afraid to use plenty of solder, for this tank must be strong, and not only watertight but airtight as well.
Few would idealize a rickety hovel as a home for the flock, but many of us, while we would not put our highly prized birds into an airtight box, so over-house them that they weaken instead of profiting by our care.
A warm floor is secured by laying it double with an airtight interlining of roofing paper or similar substance.
He noted how the doors could be fastened watertight and airtight so that any compartment could be sealed off from all the others.
The lifeboat was badly damaged amidships, but both the bow and stern, where the airtight compartments were located, were in good shape.
Sections of the rear wall swung out and locked into place againstairtight seals, forming a box at the rear end of the boat.
Rip knew that spacemen in the inner lock were making fast to the Connie, setting up the airtight seal.
Airtight packing boxes had been designed for the wheels to keep them from being freshly affected by the dust remaining in the air.
He had it installed in an airtight room into which only filtered air could pass.
The top of this was sealed over airtight with pitch, the purpose of which is to prevent this "dry" cell from drying up.
This globe is closed airtight below with a small opening above.
If you can't cook up an airtight scheme, then there is no help; and I'm going to forget the Bavarian and attend to some business more profitable and less debilitating.
Carrying the zipper up further would have turned the cape to an airtight helmet bubble.
When he was in place the other half of the rubbery, air-excluding mold closed on him and the airtight cylinder rotated, delivering him into the interior of the ship.
Through the softening filter of the airtight glass the view of distant crater walls and the airsealed towers of Moonbase City shone in etched magnificence, but he gave it only a glance.
Be sure to store the pistachios in an airtight container after purchase.
When freezing is necessary, seal chicken or other poultry in an airtight container, heavy plastic bag, plastic wrap, foil or freezer paper.
Rip knew that spacemen in the inner lock were making fast to the Connie cruiser, setting up the airtight seal.
When fruit is preserved with a large amount of sugar (a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit) it does not need to be sealed in airtight jars; because bacteria do not readily form in the thick, sugary syrup.
Delightful as a relish, and can be kept for a long time if put in airtight jars.
Those four runs that the Giants had scored were like so many mountains to be scaled, and with the airtight pitching that Joe was handing out, it seemed like an impossible task.
A little vaseline or other antiseptic ointment round the edge of this disc makes an airtight joint, or a third rubber disc is added, but the two discs are ample for pistol shooting.
When very heavy gunfire has to be withstood, care must be taken that the outer disc fits airtight into the tube of the ear.
The other planets were uninhabitable except in airtight dome cities, but they were rich in minerals.
Men went to Koshchei; they worked out of doors in oxygen helmets, and lived in airtight domes and generated their own oxygen.
Like almost everything else, the power-cartridge plant was airtight and had its own oxygen-generator.
Complete protection against chemical vapors is only offered byairtight closed spaces like cold storage facilities.
Underground shelters, caves, and tunnels that can be made airtight provide maximum NBC protection.
Only cases of foods packed in cans, bottles, or airtight foil or film wraps, and foods packed in sealed boxes or multilayered wrappings can be subjected to exposed storage.
Go ahead and wrap me up in anairtight case, have them throw the book at me, send me up the river, put me in the hot squat.
In packing therefore, all the food, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco should be soldered airtight and in tins so arranged that when once opened, it is possible to shut them again.
These are airtight and so very useful for when they are empty they can be cleaned and used for milk, sardines, or anything else again and again.
Phillips carefully closed the airtight hatch as they left, then followed the others in search of the galley.
Phillips waited for the airtight door to slam shut.
By the time he got the airtighthatch open, he was beginning to pant in the thinning air.
On the final day, Markwith was given a chance to redeem himself, and pitched an airtight game.
Airtight jars, closed with airtight stoppers, may be used if the eggs are intended to be kept for a very long time.
This process is rather a difficult one, as it requires an airtight case, but the description herewith given may be entered into with as large a case as the builder cares to construct.
A very pretty finish and one easily put on even after the parts are put together is obtained as follows: Take a barrel and stuff up the cracks or paste paper over them so as to make it as near airtight as possible.
In this case the draft tube must be airtight so as to form suction, when filled with escaping water, and should be proportioned to the size of the wheel.
Reaction wheels as a rule govern themselves better than impulse wheels, due both to the fact that they use more water, and that they operate in a small airtight case.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airtight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
