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Example sentences for "strong fire"

  • It is prepared by sifting the filings of different metals, washing them in a strong lye, and then placing them on a plate of iron or copper over a strong fire, where they are continually stirred till their colour is altered.

  • It is commonly singed a little over a strong fire or glowing coals, and laid to soak a certain time in water, after which it is placed under stones in order to be pressed straight.

  • An accident of the kind, which that author seems to have apprehended, had almost happened at Beneventum, when the landlord who entertained Mæcenas and his company was making a strong fire in order to get some birds sooner roasted: .

  • If the calx of Tin be urged by a strong fire it grows white, but the greatest violence of heat will not fuse it; which makes some Chymists consider it as a calcinable or absorbent earth, rather than a vitrifiable one.

  • When it is required to know if lead contains any mixture of gold or silver, it is heated in a strong fire in capsules of calcined bones, which are called cuppels.

  • This mixture is put into an earthern retort, and distilled with a strong fire.

  • In the Collections of the Academy for 1746, Mr Macquer shows that, when a mixture of white oxyd of arsenic and nitre are subjected to the action of a strong fire, a neutral salt is obtained, which he calls neutral salt of arsenic.

  • Any stone that stands a strong fire, as greenstone, trapp.

  • To overheat one's self in a warm sun, or by sitting too near a strong fire, S.

  • Bensil of a fire, a strong fire, South and West of S.

  • To obtain a good roast-beef not less than two pounds ought to be cooked on a strong fire.

  • Then put the trout in the fish-kettle and place on a strong fire.

  • Season with salt and pepper, grease with oil and put them on a strong fire on the grill.

  • To this purpose, he calcined an ounce of Magnesia in a strong fire.

  • Eight ounces of pure Magnesia Alba were calcined with a strong fire in an air furnace.

  • The alkalis do, however, acquire some degree of causticity in a strong fire, as appears from their being more easily united with spirit of wine after having been kept in fusion for some time.

  • But if you further continue the Calcination till you have perfectly Incinerated the Tartar, & kept it long enough in a Strong fire, the remaining Calx will be White.


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