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The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)

London : [William Laxton] · leaf 377

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into the charging aperture a, betweenthe sliding-plate a*, and the door b; so that by drawing out theslide «*, the charge will descend by its own gravity into the bodyof the furnace, without allowing the gases to escape through thecharging aperture b. The charge thus falls upon a layer of… … Fig. 6. Fig. 6. The zinc is volatilised by the heat, and the scoria falls into thelower part of the furnace, and is run out at tlie ai)ertures c, c, c.The volatilised zinc is carried nff with tlie gases arising from com-bustion, and passes through the opening d, into the receiver e,above. The gases…

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