The word 'gasket' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used in reference to a mechanical seal or packing that is used to prevent leakage between two objects. Example: The mechanic replaced the worn gasket in the car's engine to stop the oil from leaking.
The following day he totally blew a gasket, saying that Ed Balls' description of Liam Byrne's "there's no money left" note as a joke was "frankly the most appalling thing I have heard in this election campaign so far".
Eurosceptics from countries such as Britain and Denmark blew a gasket on seeing, in the first sentence of the first article, the dread word "federal", which they take to imply a drive towards a European super-state.
In 1986, after the failure of a gasket in one of its booster rockets, the shuttle Challenger disintegrated in mid-air shortly after lift-off, killing its crew of seven.
Liquids and other fluid samples could thus be confined in a sample chamber defined by the cylindrical gasket wall and flat diamond ends.
The Sierpiński gasket is defined as follows: Take a solid equilateral triangle, divide it into four congruent equilateral triangles, and remove the middle triangle; then do the same with each of the three remaining triangles; and so on.
Pipe sections are easily joined with a coupling sleeve and rubber-ring gasket.
A rubber-ring gasket in the bell end is compressed when the two sections are joined, creating a watertight, flexible connection.
The utility of the diamond cell was greatly enhanced when Alvin Van Valkenburg, one of the original diamond-cell inventors at the National Bureau of Standards, placed a thin metal foil gasket between the two diamond-anvil faces.
An airtight seal is achieved between the lid and the rim of the can using a thin layer of gasket or compound.
In 1905 Bridgman discovered a method of packing pressurized samples, including gases and liquids, in such a way that the sealing gasket always experienced a higher pressure than the sample under study, thereby confining the sample and reducing the risk of experimental failure.
Mr Phillips may very well blow a gasket.
