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Example sentences for "spirit lamp"

  • Heat some water to boiling in a glass flask over a spirit lamp.

  • In the flask place about a teaspoonful of liquid ammonia, and heat it over a spirit lamp.

  • We require a little lycopodium, a piece of glass tubing one foot long, and about a quarter-inch bore, and the non-luminous flame of the Bunsen burner or a spirit lamp.

  • Let this vessel be now placed over the flame of a spirit lamp, so as to cause the water it contains to boil.

  • Let a small quantity of water be placed in a thin glass flask, and let it be boiled by holding it over a spirit lamp.

  • Let us suppose a spirit lamp, or other regular source of heat, applied to a bath of mercury, so as to maintain the mercury at a fixed temperature of 200 deg.

  • The film is fixed by holding the cover-glass in a pair of forceps, and passing it slowly through the flame of a spirit lamp two or three times.

  • Unless the room is very warm it is advisable to heat the slide very gently over a spirit lamp, as this causes the tissues to stain more brightly and more rapidly.

  • A *spirit lamp* for warming the staining fluids.

  • III Gora went into the kitchen and made him a cup of coffee over a spirit lamp.

  • James, too wise in the habits of earthquakes to permit the still distracted cook to make a fire in the range, brewed the coffee over a spirit lamp, and then departed, nothing loath, on his mission.

  • Many substances, for delicate experiments, are calcined over a spirit lamp in a platinum spoon or crucible; others, in iron vessels or earthen crucibles, placed in a common furnace.

  • It is produced by blowing a mixture of pulverised rosin and magnesium dust through the flame of a spirit lamp.

  • SMALL TUBES are bent in the flame of a spirit lamp or gas-jet, and cut by a file, a scratch being made, and the two portions pulled or broken asunder in a way easily learned by a few trials.

  • If you now take the negative to be printed from and hold it near the fire or a spirit lamp, it will on becoming warm give off perceptible moisture, thus showing that it was distinctly damp before.

  • The strip of metal ribbon is held by a pair of pliers, and ignited at the flame of a candle or spirit lamp.

  • As it will be convenient to be able to alter the temperature of the solution when in this dish at will, a spirit lamp or stove or a small gas-stove will be a useful, if not an essential addition.

  • Add the strained liquor of the oysters and a little more gravy, and turn the concoction into a deep silver dish with a spirit lamp beneath.

  • Melt a small quantity of the sulphate of potash and copper in a spoon over a spirit lamp.

  • Soak a cotton wick in a strong solution of salt and water, dry it, place it in a spirit lamp, and when lit it will give a bright yellow light for a long time.

  • Having thus been “tinned,” the parts are placed together and heat applied until they unite, a spirit lamp or a blowpipe being used.

  • Take one of these and hold it with an old pair of soldering tweezers in the flame of a spirit lamp, and give it a coating of solder on its under side.

  • Using the flame of a spirit lamp or a candle and a mouth blowpipe, heat the upper part of the coupling, being careful not to allow the flame to come too near the soft pipe.

  • The flask containing the fuming hydrochloric acid, heated by spirit lamp.

  • From red oxide of mercury, heated over a spirit lamp or a few pieces of ignited charcoal.

  • A drop of tincture of iodine placed on the surface of metallic palladium, and then evaporated by the heat of a spirit lamp, leaves a black spot.

  • A coil of fine platinum wire is slipped over the wick of a spirit lamp, the greater part being raised above the cotton; the lamp is supplied with ether or alcohol, lighted for a moment and then blown out.

  • It should now be carefully washed, and afterwards heated over a spirit lamp until it takes a cherry-red color, and it is then ready for exposure in the camera.

  • After remaining a short time, it assumes a blue color; take it out, rinse freely with pure water, then dry with a spirit lamp, and it is ready for buffing.

  • Hold it over the stove, spirit lamp, or ignited alcohol, and see to it that it is heated evenly throughout.

  • Any source of heat emitting no smoke will do, such as a kitchen stove, a spirit lamp, or a small quantity of alcohol poured on a plate and ignited (when the time arrives).

  • From this material what are known as closed tubes may be made by heating a piece of the tubing at or about its center over a spirit lamp, and, when the glass has fused, pulling it apart.

  • Heat the gold over a spirit lamp, and a deposit of mercury will soon be seen upon the colder sides of the tube above the bottom.


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