Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 851
Boil Water Without Fire.Half fill a common oil-flask with water, and boilit for a few minutes over the flame of a spirit-lamp.While boiling, cork up the mouth of the flask asquickly as you can, and tie a bit of wet bladderover the cork, so as to exclude the air perfectly.The flask being now removed… … IMITATING HOAR-FROST. zoic acid, which exists in the shape of snowy crystals.Elevate the bell-glass upon a little stage made ofbooks or pieces of wood, so as to allow a spirit-lamp to be introduced underneath, and a littleevaporating dish to be held above the flame bymeans of a ring of wire with…
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