combustion tube

American  

noun

1. a tube of hard glass used especially in a furnace for burning a substance in a current of air or oxygen.

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Etymology

Origin of combustion tube

First recorded in 1860–65

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Example Sentences

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combustion tube

Difficultly volatile liquids may be weighed directly into the boat; volatile liquids are weighed in thin hermetically sealed bulbs, the necks of which are broken just before they are placed in the combustion tube.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

What is sold as Jena combustion tube should be preferred when this is the case.

From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by W. A. Shenstone

Take 1 gram of the dried and powdered oxide and place it in a warm dry combustion tube.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

Filaments of carbon placed in a combustion tube with a little chloride ammonium.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

Fill the combustion tube to a depth of about eight inches with some copper oxide, which has been recently ignited and cooled in a close vessel.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

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