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Recent Examples of canistersIt's powered by standard butane, propane and butane/propane mix gas canisters, and Fire Maple recommends the butane/propane mix for the best performance in cold weather.—New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2025 The size of these canisters, with an inner diameter of just 220 millimeters, is designed to maintain sub-criticality.—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025 The seminar will include a review of inspections done on the canisters at San Onofre’s storage sites.—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025 It's become a popular party and rave drug, distributed in balloons or canisters, where they're called whippets.—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025 Federal agents responded with chemical crowd control munitions, including tear gas canisters and less-lethal guns that sprayed pepper balls.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025 Alejandra's arms are full of fuel canisters.—Teri Schultz, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025 Protesters were met with gas canisters and pepper pellets, Fox 32 reported.—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025 If readings reach dangerous levels, astronauts can construct a makeshift radiation shield inside Orion, fortifying themselves between the spacecraft's heatshield and water storage canisters, both of which are better at absorbing penetrating radiation than other onboard materials.—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Price contends the Jameson portion of the USGS report is outdate and inaccurate, pointing to a much more recent 2025 third-party review from Sproule ERCE energy consultants that estimates the Jameson basin could hold 9 billion net barrels of recoverable crude oil.
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Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
Orange construction barrels are seemingly everywhere.
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Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Oct. 2025
In 2019, city employees began hanging about 500 trick-or-treat pumpkin buckets in the trees on Main Street every October.
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Elliott Harrell,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Oct. 2025
Health inspectors cited the soul food restaurant after discovering that the kitchen handwashing sink was blocked with multiple plastic buckets in the sink basin.
His playing has now come to be an omen of danger, so visitors who hear drums playing should be wary.
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Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
In 1977, Rivers first began playing music in middle school, beginning with tuba because his friend, future Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto, played jazz drums.
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