Procure a large stone bottle which will hold a gallon of water, into this put a pound of iron filings, or granulated zinc, with two quarts of water, and add to this by degrees one pint of sulphuric acid.
Or else take equal portions of ore and of lead ochre, and mix with them a small quantity of iron filings, and put them into a scorifier, then scatter iron filings over the mixture.
If there is difficulty in melting the ore, add to it iron filings, which, since they increase the heat, easily separate the waste from lead and other metals.
Of the Preservation of Steel or Iron filings, 239 vi.
The artificial earthquake, or volcano of Lemery, is formed by mixing into a paste with water, about equal parts of sulphur and steel or iron filings, and burying the mixture in the earth.
If zinc or iron filings, or pulverized antimony, be mixed with chlorate of potassa, and struck with a hammer, violent detonations will ensue.
The obstacle which might arise from the sulphuric acid set at liberty is destroyed by iron filings, or other basis.
To separate this iodide from the remaining iron filings, he agitates the whole with water, and decants the liquor.
Iron filings, after being heated for a long time, are attracted by a loadstone, yet not so strongly or from so great a distance as when not heated.
D) Test the needle for magnetism with iron filings, and save it for the next experiment.
You have seen that the horseshoe magnet can lift nails, iron filings, etc.
The horseshoe magnet, H M; two sewing-needles that have never been near a magnet; iron filings.
When the copper has impregnated the acid, pour off the solution, and put into it some pieces of iron, or iron filings.
The hydrated sulphides of iron, iron filings, and ferro-cyanide of potassium have also been strongly recommended, and are exhibited in the same way.
Iron filings, which decompose water at a red heat, were placed inside this tube.
The use of iron filings to map out the entire field of force that surrounds a magnet was unknown to classical antiquity; it was not known to Peregrinus or Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century or even to Gilbert in the sixteenth.
The explanation that he outlined for induced currents was based on the lines of magnetic force, which he had so often delineated by means of iron filings.
It was a favorite occupation of his, at moments of comparative leisure, to make varied pictures in iron filings of magnetic fields as they were exhibited under the influence of different combinations of magnets.
If iron filings be sprinkled over the card while the current is passing, they will arrange themselves in circles around the wire, thus indicating the form of the magnetic field surrounding the conductor.
This can be represented graphically by placing a piece of cardboard over the magnet and sprinkling iron filings on the paper, gently tapping at the same time.
If iron filings be sprinkled on the cardboard and a current passed through the solenoid, the character of the field is indicated.
In this search the lines of magnetic force, which he had so often delineated in iron filings, came to his aid.
Faraday made many pictures in iron filings of magnetic fields due to various combinations of magnets.
Nitrous air is as much diminished both by iron filings, and also by liver of sulphur, when confined in quicksilver, as when it is exposed to water.
Iron filings, being admitted to this air, were dissolved by it pretty fast, half of the air disappearing, and the other half becoming inflammable air, not absorbed by water.
Water thus impregnated with fixed air readily dissolves iron, as Mr. Lane has discovered; so that if a quantity of iron filings be put to it, it presently becomes a strong chalybeate, and of the mildest and most agreeable kind.
They are invisible, though their presence is readily manifested by means of iron filings.
The same is true of any conductor through which an electric current is flowing, and their presence may be shown by means of iron filings.
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