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Example sentences for "wire gauze"

  • It is evident that all the particles of the gas are in a state of very active repulsion over the surface, since flame will not pass through wire gauze of moderate fineness.

  • This mixture passes readily through a wire gauze, under all circumstances, and it, of course, thus approaches the flame of the lamp enclosed within such a material, and it explodes.

  • Upon this discovery is founded the inimitable safety-lamp of Davy, by means of which the explosive gases of a mine are harmlessly ignited within a cage of wire gauze.

  • There were two cylinders, the inner being of wire gauze, and the outer of copper and asbestos.

  • Cylinder of wire gauze closed at both ends with gauze.

  • There is a lighter sieve of wire gauze, similar to the preceding, for washing the mud from the ore, by agitating the fragments in a tub filled with water.

  • The large sieves employed in Derbyshire for sorting the ore at the mouth of the mine, into coarse and fine pieces, is a wire gauze of iron; its meshes are square, and an inch long in each side.

  • In fact, wicks are sometimes made of a kind of wire gauze.

  • It consists of a cylindrical metal chimney, covered at the top with a piece of rather coarse iron-wire gauze.

  • In the improved form of safety-lamps, the oil flame burns inside a glass, but the air which reaches the flame has to pass through two cylinders of wire gauze.

  • That's why the flame burns inside a wire gauze.

  • That shows that gas which is not burning can pass through a wire gauze, but that gas which is aflame cannot pass until the wire is red-hot.

  • The captives have always preferred the network of wire gauze, which affords a perfectly firm foundation, as the soft material of the nest becomes incrusted upon the meshes as it hardens.

  • I was able to lift up the dome of wire gauze, tilt it, reverse it, turn it over and reverse it again, without causing the insect to delay her task for a moment.

  • For cages I use a dozen large covers of wire gauze, such as are used in the larder to protect meat from the flies.

  • I have gathered some very curious data from these makeshift appliances, which may be used with and as a substitute for the cages of wire gauze, although the latter are preferable.

  • Thus do I fill my vivarium, which consists of a large, bell-shaped cage of wire gauze, standing in an earthenware pan full of sand.

  • I place the corpse on the sand of a pan, with a wire gauze cover, and leave events to take their course.

  • Its mouth, closed with a wire gauze cover, reaches the level of various other appliances, test-tubes and jars, which are already stocked or awaiting their colony of vermin.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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