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Word: balloonets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Usage:

...taste of the "dope" (cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate) used for coating aircraft fabrics. Question before the crash court of inquiry in London this week: Were the rats in the wreckage French rats or were they British stowaways in the R-101, had they gnawed a freshly doped balloonet of hydrogen until the gas leaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: R-101's Rats | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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