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Gasses are also stored in spheres. Likewise, gas cylinders usually have domed ends. High Pressure gas storage containers have the same problem a soap bubble has, to maximize volume with minimum surface area. In this case the surface is usually heavy high-strength metal. You could store high pressure gas in any shape, but it would be heavier than a sphere or a cylinder for the same storage volume. So why is a cylinder just like a sphere? If you had a spherical high-pressure gas container, it would have equal internal pressure all over its surface. So imagine we cut a ribbon band of material circumferentially and made a hundred of them--then we stacked and welded the bands into a cylinder. The pressure on the band (now a longer tube) would be the same as the pressure was on the sphere--BUT we have a much larger volume.

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