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

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 Beringer, Cornelius

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

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

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

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 Shenstone, W. A.