compression chamber

As World War I pulverized any last European claims to civilization, these expat artists turned Zurich into a compression chamber of Western insanity, baptized with the nonsense name Dada.

In a museum, for example: a compression chamber of past, present and future.

Yet the fairs’ main selling point — as a time-limited compression chamber for the discovery and sale of art from all over — diffuses into the endless scroll of e-commerce, and other parties are taking their chances.

To capture that heat energy they inject a water mist into the compression chamber; the water readily absorbs the heat.

With a hiss as the air, hitherto compressed to two hundred pounds to the square inch, rushed from its compression chamber, the deadly missile sped on its way.