A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 279
n oxygen gas.Fig. 245. If a gun-barrel containing a piece of sulphur, and closedat the muzzle, be heated red-hot, the ignited jet of sul-phur vapor issuing from thetouch-hole will cause a bunchof iron wire to take fire andburn brilliantly, Fig. 245. A very important applica- What changes occur in… … COMPOUNDS OF SULPHUR. 267 tion, in the arts, of sulphur, is made in the process call-ed vulcanization, which consists in dipping India-rubberin melted sulphur, and then subjecting it to a tempera-ture of about 300°. The rubber retains about two percent, of sulphur, and gains the property of…
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