A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe: Being a Graduated Course of Analysis for the Use of Students, and All Those Engaged in the Examination of Metallic CombinationsH. Baillière, 1858 - 269 pages |
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Page 17 - ... a continual stream of air from the anterior part of the mouth through the blowpipe. When the mouth begins to be empty, it is replenished by the lungs in an instant, while the tongue is withdrawn from the roof of the mouth, and replaced again in the same manner as in pronouncing the monosyllable tut. In this way, the stream...
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