Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 614
be condensed to a liquid by the pres-sure of the atmosphere, if its temperature falls below the boiling-point of this liquid (except under the conditions hereafter to beconsidered, when the vapor is diffused through the atmosphereitself). HEAT. The process of distillation, whick is used in the arts… … Pig. 415. The liquid is boiled in a glass retort, and the vapor which is thusformed is conducted into a receiver, where it is cooled below theboiling-point, and again rediiced to the liquid state. Since glassvessels when exposed to a naked fire are liable to break, the bodyof the retort is usually…
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