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Example sentences for "glass retort"

  • A glass retort, placed in a sand bath, and covered with a dome of baked earth, Pl.

  • E to F; a glass retort A, is luted to the upper extremity E, which contains water, and is placed upon the furnace VVXX.

  • This operation is performed in a glass retort, and the gas obtained is perfectly pure, provided that the first portions, which are mixed with the common air of the vessels, be rejected.

  • He put a quantity of tin (about half a pound) into a glass retort, sometimes of a larger and sometimes of a smaller size, and then drew out the beak into a capillary tube.

  • The heat necessary to melt lead is so high that satisfactory experiments on its calcination could not easily be made in a glass retort.

  • Lavoisier found, as Margraaf stated, that when water is digested for a long time in a glass retort, a little silica makes its appearance; but he showed that this silica was wholly derived from the retort.

  • Yes; but not castles or yachts: and not enough jewels to please princesses who haven't spent eighteen years in a glass retort.

  • Because, I confess I wandered near enough to the border last night, to think of you as a princess who'd been shut up in a glass retort, as all really nice princesses were in my day, in fairyland.

  • It's remarkable what a lot of valuable knowledge can be picked up by an enterprising princess in a glass retort, when the dragon isn't looking!

  • From ferrocyanide of potassium in fine powder, and 8 or 10 times its weight of concentrated sulphuric acid, heated together in a glass retort.

  • From crystallised oxalic acid, gently heated with 5 or 6 times its weight of strong sulphuric acid in a glass retort.

  • The kreasote thus obtained is then colourless; but it contains a considerable quantity of water in solution, which is separated by distillation in a glass retort.

  • Pour a little water over some pentiodide of phosphorus, previously put into a glass retort, apply a gentle heat, and collect the gas as before.

  • Put this powder into an earthen or glass retort, having a long wide neck, and so large a body that the matter may fill but two thirds of it.

  • This mixture he puts into a glass retort, and with a graduated fire draws off a very sharp, volatile, urinous spirit.

  • Two parts of fused acetate of potash, with one of the strongest oil of vitriol, yield, by slow distillation from a glass retort into a refrigerated receiver, concentrated acetic acid.

  • When heated to dull ignition in a glass retort it gives out 39.

  • It was then distilled in a glass retort, by a temperature gradually raised to redness, but not a particle of mercury was evaporated, as it had been alleged by the alchymists would be the case.

  • Grind it in a wooden mortar, and reduce it to powder; put it into a glass retort, and pour upon it the spirit of wine (No.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black cattle; comparative value; expressed thus; glass bottle; glass dish; glass door; glass jars; glass making; glass painting; glass plates; glass retort; glass shade; glass tube; glass tubing; glass vessel; glass window; letters sent; looking creature; mechanical flight; note book; pistillate flowers; sacrifices offered; said the young gentleman; seedling trees; steam locomotion; violent attack