Treatise on Poisons by Sir Robert Christison

Christison, Robert, Sir, 1797-1882

Chapter 214: 6. Instrument for washing down scanty precipitates on filters. It is a

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Chapter 214: 6. Instrument for washing down scanty precipitates on filters. It is a

thin bottle capable of standing heat—half-filled with water, which may be boiled on occasion,—and having its cork pierced with a small tube drawn at its outer end to a very fine bore. The breath is impelled into the bottle, and, the bottle being then reversed, a very fine stream issues with great force. [Illustration: Fig. 1.] [Illustration: Fig. 2.] [Illustration: Fig. 3.] [Illustration: Fig. 4.] [Illustration: Fig. 5.] [Illustration: Fig. 6.]
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