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

Example Sentences

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 Beringer, Cornelius

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 Shenstone, W. A.

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 Beringer, Cornelius

This is a piece of combustion tube drawn out and narrowed at one end, as shown in fig.

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

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 Beringer, Cornelius