The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 234
pply any of the oxygen, but its presence facilitatesthe decomposition of the chlorate of potassa. The apparatus used for generatingthe gas is shown at Fig. 9. It consists of a copper or iron vessel (A), forming theretort or generator, a glass bottle-shaped vessel (B), which is the purifier, the… … bottom of the vessel, and the other only just enters into the top. The former, orlong tube, is the tube by which the purifier is attached to the retort; the latter, orshort tube, is that which connects the purifier with the bag. The method of charging the apparatus is as follows. Put into the…
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