When the air ceases to flow in, the stopcocks are closed, and the globe B and tube T weighed.
If water be poured into the funnel and the stopcocks a and b opened, the water will run through a, and the air escape from the vessel B by b.
The flow of the gases can be easily regulated by the stopcocks O H.
If it be required to fill a cylinder or flask with the gas, it is filled with water and inverted in the funnel, and the stopcocks b and a opened.
The stopcocks of the U-tube should be opened, or the plugs used to close the openings of the Geissler bulb should be removed before weighing in order that the air contents shall always be at atmospheric pressure.
If a soda-lime tube is used, be sure that the arm containing the soda lime is next the tube (E) and that the glassstopcocks are open.
This is sometimes necessary to makestopcocks tight, when the grinding has not been properly done in the factory.
In most ordinary stopcocks the plug is solid, but the little handle is hollow.
The proper taper for both these cones is the same as that used in stopcocks of similar size.
The stopcocks on the pipes and cisterns containing this liquor, are all made of glass.
These pipes are furnished with stopcocks M, at some distance in front of the furnace, for the purpose of regulating the jet of the gas, and interrupting, at pleasure, communication with the inside of the apparatus.
The sand taken out of these conduits is thrown into the cells q; whence they are transferred into the trough e, and water is run upon them by turning two stopcocks for each trough.
There is a space of about 2 or 3 inches between the two, into which the stopcocks enter, for letting in the water and drawing off the wort.
The percolating wort is allowed to flow off, by three or more small stopcocks round the circumference of the mash-tun, to insure the equal diffusion of the liquor.
The stopcocks at the ends of these tubes are opened and water, to which has been added about one tenth of its volume of sulphuric acid, is poured into the tube A until the side tubes B and D are completely filled.
So that I had four pipes and fivestopcocks to my boat, all of which had their uses, as shall be related.
Added to the pipes andstopcocks already enumerated was one which was simply about a foot in height, which pierced the tank on the top, some few inches from the inner edge, and near the others.
John Weiss, inventor of the improved scarificator, invented his own patent syringe in 1825, which he claimed to be superior to all previous syringes because it employed stopcocks in place of valves, which were subject to leakage and clogging.
Set also includes two small oval glass cups with brassstopcocks and a brass pump, a glass tube with cork lid for collecting blood, and a mass of silvery thread.
Some attempted to substitute stopcocks for valves, and some to place long flexible tubes between pump and glasses so that the pumping motions would not be communicated to the patient.
There are wanting four new stopcocks fitted to our air-pump.
The general run of the experiments tends to show that the leakage of a plain Sprengel pump, without stopcocks or grease, is, when in action, about 80 times as great as in the form used by me.
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