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 * Air Filters and H/E allow you to expose gases to the heat of fires (or their CO2 product) but keep/make them pure, allowing for hot N2O or similar.
 * Using a small starter flame/heater you can have in pipe combustion.
 * Canister bombs are heated Plasma in a canister, with an O2 tank placed in the canister, and then open the valve between them. You will also need to run very, very fast.
-* Pipes at around 300 kPa pressure can't be unwrenched, however, devices such as pumps and filters don't really 'hold' pressure and can be unwrenched at any time (assuming they're off)!
 * Gas pumps are for precise pressure control, volumetric pumps are for really fast pumping, and passive gates are for having 'one way' manual valves.
+* Straight piping is faster than any volume pump or gas pump, regardless of the amount. You only want a volume pump if you have a good reason for separating two pipenets from each other. For that reason, many of the pumps in the SM and even in atmospherics is useless.
+* If about to unwrench a pipe known to contain deadly gas, use a holobarrier on the tile first, then unwrench, this will keep the gases isolated to that specific turf. You can then bring your portable gas scrubber to the holobarrier'd tile and clean it up much, much faster and much safer than if you had unwrenched it without a holobarrier in the first place.
+* BZ deals damage based on the pressure, not percentage of the air that is being breathed in. This means that hot BZ is more effective than regular air-temperature BZ. This just might give you a bit of an edge when plasmaflooding, or if you want to use an invisible deathgas flamethrower.
+* A flamethrower containing extremely chilled gas such as n20 can flood a room very, very quickly. This is useful as an antagonist, but also for cooling down the SM if all your cooling breaks down for some reason.
+* A scrubber connected to a very large spaceloop is much more effective than a scrubber connected to a freezer. This is because of the added volume allowing the scubber to dump more moles of gas into the connected pipenet.
+* Using a pump of any kind after a scrubber is highly redundant and drastically lowers the effectiveness of the scrubber as it separates the pipenets and cuts off volume. The SM and the incinerator's scrubbers can be massively improved by simply replacing the pump with a straight pipe.
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