Chemical Handicraft: A Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of Chemical Apparatus, Suitable for the Performance of Class Experiments, for Every Process of Chemical Research and for Chemical Testing in the Arts. Accompanied by Copious Notes, Explanatory of the Construction and Use of the Apparatus

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J. J. Griffin and sons, 1877 - 479 Seiten
 

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Seite 85 - German silver, &c., can be melted with great ease, and that all the metallurgical and chemical processes that are commonly effected in platinum and porcelain crucibles can be promptly accomplished in the smallest cylinder of this furnace ; and in the case of platinum vessels, with this special advantage, that the oilgas is free from those sulphurous compounds the presence of which in coal-gas frequently causes damage to the crucibles. REQUISITE BLOWING POWER.
Seite 322 - College, University of Aberdeen, for a new mode of rendering certain waters (the water of the Thames being among the number) less impure and less hard, for the supply and use of manufactories, villages, towns, and cities.
Seite xv - a descriptive, illustrated, and priced CATALOGUE of APPARATUS suitable for the performance of Elementary Experiments in Physics" The present volume contains the subjects of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and Pneumatics.
Seite 85 - ... on. The oil immediately sinks in the funnel, and the stop-cock must be opened and so regulated as to keep the oil barely visible at the bottom of the funnel. If too much oil is supplied it immediately rises in the funnel, and simultaneously overflows the wickholder. Too much vapour is then thrown into the furnace, and the heat is immediately lowered, especially at the beginning of an operation, before the fire-clay portions of the furnace are well heated. If, on the contrary, ton little oil is...
Seite 108 - ... but the gas-burner is in this case put into the bottom of the furnace, instead of the top, and the arrangement of the crucible and its support is altered in the manner shown by the figure. Upon the centre of the clay plate d, the perforated plumbago cylinder and cover, represented by figs.
Seite 423 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.

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