Standard Practical Plumbing: Being a Complete Encyclopædia for Practical Plumbers and Guide for Architects, Builders, Gas Fitters, Hot Water Fitters, Ironmongers, Lead Burners, Sanitary Engineers, Zinc Workers, Recommended by the Worshipful Company of Plumbers as a Text Book for Registered Plumbers, Examinations, &c ... Illustrated with Over 2000 Engravings, 2. köideE. & F. N. Spon, 1896 |
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Page 525 - ... diluted muriatic acid, and whether it is entirely dissolved. If it is, the precipitate is of course carbonate of barytes, the weight of which, when it is dried, gives the quantity of carbonic acid ; 100 grains containing 22 of acid. If it do not effervesce, it is sulphate of barytes, the weight of which, in like manner, gives the quantity of sulphuric acid ; 100 grains, dried at a low red heat, containing 34 of acid. If it effervesce, and is partially dissolved, it consists both of carbonate...
Page 526 - ... lixiviation with a small portion of water, the sulphate of magnesia will be dissolved, the sulphate of lime remaining undissolved, and the quantities of each, after exposure to a low red heat, will give the proportions of lime and magnesia. The quantity of soda will be found from the weight of the muriate of soda heated to redness ; and the quantities of the acids will be determined in the same manner as in the general formula.
Page 444 - F1G. 114. if it be desired at any time to change the proportions between the steam .pistons and pumps, a plunger of somewhat larger size, or decreased to any smaller diameter, can be readily substituted. As exact proportions between the power and work are always desirable, if not necessary, this is a very important advantage.
Page 524 - ... of the water to be of the most complicated kind, that is, that by the indications from tests, or by evaporation, it has afforded carbonates, sulphates, and muriates of lime, magnesia and soda, the following is the general process to be followed to ascertain the ingredients, and their proportions. Reduce the water by evaporation, as far as can be done without occasioning any sensible precipitation or crystallization ; this, by the concentration, rendering the operation of the re-agents to be employed...
Page 443 - Engine, p. 54. the steam-valves of each other. The one piston acts to give steam to the other, after which it finishes its own stroke, and waits for its valve to be acted upon before it can renew its motion. This pause allows all the water-valves to seat quietly, and removes everything like harshness of motion.
Page 492 - Every Owner and Occupier of any Dwelling House, or Part of a Dwelling House within the Limits of the special Act shall, when he has laid such Communication Pipes as aforesaid, and paid or tendered the Water Rate payable in respect thereof, according to the Provisions of this and the special Act, be entitled to demand and receive from the Undertakers a sufficient Supply of Water for his domestic Purposes.
Page 536 - Those of earth arc made by the potters : these are fitted into one another, one end being always made wider than the other. To join them the closer, and prevent their breaking...
Page 451 - ... an instantaneous condensation takes place, and a vacuum is in consequence so rapidly formed in the just emptied chamber, that the steam ball is pulled over into the seat opposite to that which it had...
Page 526 - ... preliminary application of tests, by the water giving a precipitate with carbonate of ammonia, which is not soluble, or is only partially soluble in weak distilled vinegar, but is dissolved by boiling in a solution of potash, or by its precipitation from the water sufficiently evaporated by succinate of soda ; or in conducting the process itself, it will remain in solution after the precipitation of the lime by the oxalic acid, and be detected by the turbid appearance produced on the addition...
Page 525 - The precipitate being washed, may be dried ; but as it cannot be exposed to a red heat without decomposition, it can scarcely be brought to any uniform state of dryness with sufficient accuracy to admit of the quantity of lime being estimated from its weight. It is, therefore, to be calcined with a low red heat, by which it is converted into carbonate of lime, 100 grains of which are equivalent to 56 of lime. " But as a portion of carbonic acid may be expelled if the heat is raised too high, or a...