gas tube
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gas tube
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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Planes.—Horizontal: a gas tube bent horizontally round the tail.
From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various
A brush flame from the larger gas tube of the single blowpipe table is most suitable for the work of bending the tubes.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
Here was the logical place to set the gas tube, nose pointed ahead.
From The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds by Weiss, George Henry
Might be one of those gas-discharge curves, if the gas tube happened to be defective.
From The Romantic Analogue by Skupeldyckle, W.W.
To collect the gas, raise the nitrometer off the rubber stopper, and place the gas tube from the decomposition apparatus in the glass dish W and under the opening of the nitrometer.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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