nitrometer
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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)
Sauer and Adou give the nitrogen as 18.35 to 10.54 per cent. by Dumas' method; but I have never found any difficulty in obtaining percentages as high as 18.46 by the use of Lunge's nitrometer.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
The cellulose thus obtained, gives no trace of gas in the nitrometer, and duplicate determinations agree within 0.1 to 0.2 per cent. when the weight of unchanged cellulose amounts to about 0.2 grm.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
The arrows show the inlet and outlet for the cooling water that is kept running through the water jacket round the nitrometer tube.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
The acid mixture may be taken by volume for determining nitric oxide in nitrometer.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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