This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
A tube for blowing a jet of air into the flame of a lamp, a fire, or a gas-jet, in order to obtain a high temperature by rapid combustion. It is used in glass-blowing, in soldering metals, and in analytical chemistry and mineralogy.
 
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