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blowpipe
blow-pipe, blowpipe [f. blow v.1 + pipe.] 1. a. A tube through which a current of air (or other gas) is blown into a flame to increase the heat, for the purpose of fusing metals, etc.; especially employed in chemical experiments, analysis, etc. (Hence, often attrib., as in blowpipe analysis, blow-pi...
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Torupill
Construction
The Estonian bagpipe has a bag, a mouth-pipe (blow-pipe) for inflating the bag, a melody-pipe (chanter) and 1 or 2, rarely 3, drones.
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John Joseph Griffin
Other books he authored include:
Treatise on the Blow-pipe
System of Crystallography (1841)
The Radical Theory in Chemistry (1858)
Centigrade Testing
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blow-
blow- in comb. For convenience of reference all the combinations are treated here, although those under 3, certainly, and 2, apparently, are formed from the verb. 1. With adverbs, denoting actions; as blow-away a. (cf. blow v.1 12 a), susceptible to the influence of a current of air, hence fragile; ...
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John Mawe
Instructions for the use of the Blow-pipe and Chemical Tests, 4th edit. 1825.
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sumpitan
sumpitan (ˈsʌmpɪtən) Forms: 7 sempitan, zampatan, 9 sumputan, sumpitan. [a. Malay sumpītan, f. sumpit (see prec.); in Du. soempitan. The possibility of connexion between the Malay sumpītan and Arabic sabaṭāna (see cebratane, sarbacane) has been suggested.] A blow-gun made by the Malays from a hollow...
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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Engeström added an appendix, "Description and Use of a Mineralogical Pocket Laboratory; and especially the Use of the Blow-pipe in Mineralogy", which brought
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blow-pipe | EUdict | English>Swedish
Translation for: 'blow-pipe' in English->Swedish dictionary. Search over 14 million words and phrases in more than 510 language pairs.
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apophyllite
apophyllite Min. (əˈpɒfɪlaɪt, æpəʊˈfɪlaɪt) [mod. f. Gr. ἀπό off + ϕύλλον leaf + -ite; ‘so named by Haüy, 1805, in allusion to its tendency to exfoliate under the blow-pipe’ (Dana).] A zeolitic mineral, a hydrated silicate of lime and potash, with a trace of fluorine; occurring in glassy square prism...
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Silversmith
planishing hammer
raising hammer
cross-pein hammer
ball-pein hammer
anvils
stakes
swage blocks
riveting
silver hard-solder
flux
borax
boric acid
torch or blow-pipe
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hawkbill
ˈhawkbill 1. A species of turtle; = hawk's-bill 1.1782 P. H. Bruce Mem. xii. 424–5 Many sorts of tortoises, of which the hawk-bill is the most valuable for its fine shell. 1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 27, I found a hawk-bill turtle lying on the surface. 2. An instrument. (See quots.)1875 Kni...
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Gudastviri
There is a small wooden blow-pipe (khreko) with a check-valve tied into one leg, or corner of the bag.
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Drummond light
Drummond light The lime-light, or oxyhydrogen light (invented by Capt. T. Drummond, R.E., c 1825), wherein a blow-pipe flame, e.g. of combined oxygen and hydrogen, impinges on a piece of pure lime, and renders it incandescent.1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc., Chem. 298 The combination evolves wha...
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William the Dictator
He goads her to ask for Hubert's blow-pipe, and the violence of her attacks puts the Laneites to flight.
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