combustion tube

noun

1. a tube of hard glass used especially in a furnace for burning a substance in a current of air or oxygen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of combustion tube¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Attached to the combustion tube is a weighed tube containing chloride of calcium, a substance which greedily combines with water, and this tube is succeeded by a set of three or more small bulbs, blown in one piece of glass, and containing an aqueous solution of caustic potash, a substance with which carbonic acid readily enters into combination.

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What is sold as Jena combustion tube should be preferred when this is the case.

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

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

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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.

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