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

Dry the filter, transfer the cleaned ore to a piece of combustion tube ten or twelve inches long and narrowed at one end.

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

The Use of Combustion Tube.—It is often necessary to construct apparatus of what is known as hard glass or combustion tube.

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

It is almost as easy to work combustion tube as to deal with lead and soda glass if the oxy-hydrogen flame be employed.

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

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

Wash out the combustion tube with some acid and add the washing to the contents of the beaker.

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

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