Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 497
which steam is passed through an iron tube which is heated to redness, or,say, to a temperature of 1300 deg. Fah. Under these conditions the steamsuffers decomposition, and this method is sometimes adopted for the productionof hydrogen. When the iron is used in a fine state of division, as in… … Fig. I. Fig. 2. In the case in question, the original thickness of the tubes was .080 in., equalto No. 14 standard gauge (B. W. G.) in a section shown in Fig. i, the thicknessof the remaining metal is .012 in. on one side and on the opposite side the metalhas entirely disappeared. The thickness of…
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