A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 399
moisturethat may have accumulated in them by the apparatusFig. 293. D is a wooden trough, C the combustion-tube, B a tube containing chloride of calcium. Thetrough is filled with hot sand, as seen below, and theair exhausted from b and C by the syringe. A freshsupply of air is admitted by the… … is dried by the chloride of calcium before reaching C-This, in its turn, is pumped out, and the process is re-peated ten or twelve times. T]he next operation is the combustion. This is con-ducted by the aid of charcoal in a sheet-iron case calleda Liebigs combustion-furnace, Fig. 294. The bottom…
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