Gas chamber (disambiguation)

Gas chamber may refer to a means of execution wherein a poisonous gas is introduced into a hermetically sealed chamber, to kill animals and humans.

Gas chamber may also refer to:

In compartments

Man-made

• Various uses for a compartment containing gas, e.g.:
  • A chamber filled with tear gas, used to train military and law enforcement personnel in use of gas masks and in resisting the effects of tear gas
  • A room used to store gas in at atmospheric pressure, before compressed gas cylinders were invented; e.g., in basements of theatres to store the oxygen and hydrogen used to make limelight, the gas was stored in a big flexible gas-tight bag inside the room
  • In a patent description: a gas-filled chamber to make something float in water
  • Part of an automatic or semi-automatic rifle, e.g., in the AK-107
  • Part of an internal combustion engine's exhaust system to let the exhaust gas escape underwater but not let water enter the exhaust system

In nature

• The siphuncle or float chamber, found in the shells of some cephalopods
• A surfing term, when a big wave rolls over, enclosing a temporary horizontal tunnel of air with the surfer inside

In geography

The name of a number of surf spots around the world, most notably:

• Gas Chamber, near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
• Gas Chambers, on North Shore (Oahu)

In media and entertainment

In fiction

• Gas Chamber, the band formed by Eikichi Mishina in Persona 2: Innocent Sin and carried over to Eternal Punishment
• The Dachau concentration camp was said to have contained gas chambers for killing people (and to have produced lamp shades and soaps made out of human skin and fat) in a US psyops propaganda movie shown to German civilians

In music

• Gas Chamber (album), a 1993 album by American rapper C-Bo
• "Gas Chamber", a song by the Angry Samoans covered by the Foo Fighters on the album Back from Samoa
• Gas Chamber Orchestra, an American noise music ensemble