The invention relates to the production of a spherical hollow filling body for filling containers for combustible and inflammable liquids or gases, and to a method for the especially advantageous usesthereof, for example, for preventing explosive combustion processes and explosions, for extinguishing fires, as protection against corrosion in tanks, for separating fuels and water, as protection ag ainst bacteria and fungi in fuel tanks, as protection against theft, for reducing hydrocarbon emissions, for increasing the stability and safety of tanks in the event of a crash, for reducing the boil-off effect of hydrogen, for applications in the chemical industry, for deriving static electricity from fuel containers, for protection against electromagnetic interferences, for reducing and slowingdown the B.L.E.V.E. effect, for increasing the filling quantity of gas containers, for heating and cooling liquids and gases, and for reducing evaporation loss. The invention also relates to methodsfor producing the filling body. Figure 1 shows a spherical filling body according to the invention, consisting of a plurality of disk-type circular vertical surfaces (1, 2 and 3) and a plurality of disk-type circular horizontal surfaces (7, 8 and 10) which are parallel to each other. A circular opening (6) is located in the centre of the horizontal surface (10), said opening forming an axial continuous tube in the centre, from the top (4) to the bottom (5), together with the upper, inwardly open, circular sleeve-type body (4) and the lower, inwardly open, circular sleeve-type body (5), the inner diameters of the sleeve-type, inwardly open circular bodies (4 and 5) and the circular opening (6) being identical. The vertical surfaces (1) extend from the outer edge of the spherical body to theedge of each circular opening (4, 5 and 6) of the parallel horizontal surfaces (7, 10 and 8) respectively surrounding the openings.