Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 616
Steam-Bath. — The fact, that the temperature of boil-ing water and of the steam rising from it is constant at 100°,is frequently applied in the laboratory when it is important tomaintain a moderate and constant degree of heat for a lengthof time. The arrangement which is usually adopted for… … Fig. 419. Fig. 420. For drying precipitates, or for expelling the water of crystalli-zation from a salt, the chemist frequently uses a steam-bath likethe one represented in Fig. 420. This is simply a copper ovenwith double sides, which is maintained at 100° by boiling thewater which partially fills…
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