It is obtained by igniting and then crystallizing the residuum of the distillation of muriatic acid from common salt.
It may be obtained from the syrupy superphosphate of lime above described, by diluting it with water, saturating with carbonate of ammonia; evaporating, crystallizing, and gently igniting the salt in a retort.
An excellent powder for applying to razor-strops, is made by igniting together in a crucible equal parts of well-dried copperas and sea salt.
It was distilled from saltpetre so long ago as the 13th century, by igniting that salt, mixed with copperas or clay, in a retort.
A less pure baryta may be obtained by igniting strongly a mixture of the carbonate and charcoal, both in fine powder and moistened.
It is conceivable that the property which masses of greasy rags, and such-like matter, possess of ignitingwhen left to themselves, might under some circumstances, be the only means available to procure fire.
They are used for igniting hookhas: they are also burnt inside the smoothing-iron used by washermen in order to heat it.
He having slung it over his back, we put out the fire to prevent the risk of igniting the trees, and proceeded homewards well content with our evening's sport.
With the bark they formed a lean-to; and igniting the wood, they soon had a fire blazing.
The failure of either the carburetor or ignitingmeans to function properly will be immediately apparent by faulty action of the power plant.
Motors with charges igniting at constant volume without compression, such as the Lenoir, Hugon, and other similar types now abandoned as wasteful in fuel and effect.
Motors with charges igniting at constant pressure with compression, in which a receiver is charged by a pump and the gases burned while being admitted to the motor cylinder, such as types of the Simon and Brayton engine.
There are perforations L in this baffle plate to prevent burnt gases being pocketed behind the baffle plate and pre-igniting the new charge.
The method of igniting the gas is very similar, as the spark ignites the circle of gas immediately adjacent to the sparking point, and this circle in turn ignites a little larger one concentric with it.
Pat had collected wood for a fire, though he had forgotten that he did not possess the means of igniting it.
By igniting a few handfuls of dried leaves which were thrown into the houses, they quickly blazed up from one end to the other.
Mr Norman at once gave the order, which the seamen executed with the delight of school-boys igniting huge bonfires, and then the three boats pulled back in the direction of the still burning junk.
Drake, an American, described a mode ofigniting a combustible gaseous mixture by raising a thimble-shaped piece of metal to incandescence.
The method ofigniting the compressed charge was also effective.
The igniting valve is usually termed the timing valve, because it determines the time of the explosion.
The charge is placed on a small wire tripod, and connections are made with a fuse to an electric firing battery for igniting the charges.
The behavior of the standard safety lamp and of the safety lamps undergoing test may be compared in this box as to height of flame for different percentages of methane in the air, the effect of such flames in igniting gas, etc.
The flat perforated division is hinged to allow of being opened for the purpose of igniting the gas.
In the meantime a stone should be adjusted upon the bed of the press, rubbed over with pumice powder, and warmed—this may be easily effected by pouring spirits over the stone and igniting it.
Air, like coal and its gases, must be heated before they will unite to form what is known as combustion and so as not to reduce the temperature of the fire-box below the igniting point of the gases.
Give a practical definition of the igniting temperature.
Gas will not burn only a short distance in the flues of a boiler, as the water absorbs the heat so quickly that the temperature of gas is lowered below the igniting point.
At the same time gas entering by a number of holes, and streaming into the air to form an explosive mixture, the movement of a valve cuts off the supply, and brings the igniting arrangement into action.
The Lenoir ignitingarrangement was complicated and troublesome.
The igniting arrangement is a very good modification of Barnett's lighting cock, which I have explained already, but a slide valve is used instead of a cock.
Then this mixture, if compressed to half volume before igniting and kept at constant temperature, would give, when ignited, a pressure of 120 lb.
The igniting arrangement is in the main similar to that used on the rack and clutch engine.
I proved that the temperature for igniting a mixture of gasolene vapour and air was nearly as high as melting iron, by heating an iron rod to a dull red heat and bringing it to the watch crystal containing gasolene.
For most purposes, other than igniting gasolene engines, in which dry cells are used, an exceedingly small current is required.
By use the cells lose, not much in voltage, but in the ability to furnish sufficient quantity in amperes to make the hot spark required for igniting the mixture of gasolene and air in an engine cylinder.
To add to the dreadful condition of the Bolands, the assailants had now succeeded in igniting the thatch of the dwelling-house, and it was immediately in a blaze.
Between the ratchet disk and the igniting flame a small plate not shown is affixed to the pipe, its edge being just above the burner top.
As I lifted my rifle to take aim a flash leaped out of the cloud and struck the ground close to where the bull was standing, igniting the grass.
Later, the low muttering of thunder, pulsing from the monster's baleful heart, and the thin streak of fire darting out far in advance of the rain and igniting the dry grass.
Then they clasped hands, and, as though on a private signal, plunged over the edge into the inferno, their hair and robes igniting like dry tinder in a furnace.
The fire swirled around the woman, and in an instant her oil-soaked robes flared, enveloping her body and igniting her hair.
It occurs native in hausmannite, and may be obtained artificially by igniting the sesquioxide or peroxide in the open air.
The protoxide occurs as olive-green powder, and is obtained by igniting carbonate of manganese in a current of hydrogen.
Before igniting the gas at the end of the tube take the, precaution to collect a t.
Martin Heinrich Klaproth showed the necessity for igniting precipitates before weighing them, if they were not decomposed by this process; and he worked largely with Louis Nicolas Vauquelin in perfecting the analysis of minerals.
Pure sodium carbonate is prepared by igniting the bicarbonate, and exactly 53 grammes are dissolved in water, forming a strictly normal solution.
Oxygen, recognized by its power of igniting a glowing splinter, results from the decomposition of oxides of the noble metals, peroxides, chlorates, nitrates and other highly oxygenized salts.
The same decomposition may be effected by igniting with iron, ferric oxide and sodium carbonate (E.
The igniting point of acetylene is lower than that of coal gas, being about 900 degrees Fahrenheit as against eleven hundred degrees for coal gas.
The ash must be estimated by igniting a weighed portion of the tea.
The spongy platinum is obtained by igniting the ammonium platinic chloride at a red heat.
By precipitating a solution of ferric sulphate or chloride with ammonia, in excess, and washing, drying, and igniting in the resulting hydrate.
This may be procured by igniting uranium oxalate in a closed vessel, or in a stream of hydrogen gas.
The true oxide is a white powder decomposed by water forming the hydrate, and obtainable by igniting the metal in oxygen.
In the manufacture double-lengths are used, so that each splint may be coated with the ignitingcomposition at both ends, and then cut asunder in the middle to form two matches.
By heating the oxide left by igniting pure acetate of lead with black flux.
It is produced by igniting manganous carbonate, or manganic oxide, or manganic peroxide.
Found native as "Braumite," and readily formed by exposing manganous hydrate to the action of air, and drying, or by gently igniting the peroxide brown or black powder decomposed by heat.
Otto, when he compressed the explosive mixture in the working cylinder before igniting it.
For example, any other agency that brought the atmosphere to a corresponding temperature would be equally efficacious in igniting the nitrogen.
Ignition is performed by an external gas jet, near a pocket in the slide valve by which the charge is admitted; this pocket carries flame to the charge, thus igniting it without allowing any escape.
The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the grooves;--ran foul.
Stubb's producing his match and igniting his pipe, for now a respite was granted.
One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance forigniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
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