The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 104
Fig. 2.Burner. BLOWPIPE 95 BLOW THE FEATHER letting their elasticity drive the airout through the pipe. EXPERIMENTS. I. Melting. Take a small platinumwire or a bit of lime, and hold it invarious parts of the blowpipe flame.(Objects may be so held by a pair ofplatinum forceps.) The wire will… … others, and it will thus be found thatthe hottest part of the flame is just atthe tip A (Fig. 3), v^here it is almostinvisible. Hold various substances,bits of glass, stone, or metal in thispart of the flame, and it will be foundthat some melt easily in it, whileothers do not. 2. Oxydizing. Near…
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