Muffles Sentence Examples

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  • If they are supported at intervals along a flat side, they are called muffles, and the furnace is known as a Silesian furnace.

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  • This requires more time and fuel than the work in " open " furnaces, but in the muffles the gaseous hydrochloric acid is separated from the fire-gases, just like that evolved in the pot, and can therefore be condensed into strong hydrochloric acid, like the pot-acid.

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  • In the Silesian process the distillation is conducted in specially constructed muffles of a prismatic shape arched above, which are arranged in two parallel rows within a low-vaulted furnace, similar to the pots in a glass furnace.

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  • As a rule every furnace accommodates ten muffles.

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  • A fresh charge is then put in at once, the muffles being cleared only after three successive distillations.

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  • The chief improvements in the plant of these processes are concerned with the manufacture of the retorts or muffles, and especially with the introduction of gas-firing.

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  • It is not easy to keep the muffles permanently tight, and as soon as any leakages occur, either hydrochloric acid must escape into the fire-flue, or some fire-gases must enter into the muffle.

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  • It is now usually performed by a series of muffles, superposed one over another, so that the whole forms a kind of shelfburner, with internally heated shelves (the" Rhenania "furnace).

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  • In Silesia the introduction of gas-firing has led to the use of furnaces containing eighty muffles.

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  • A fourth Bristol site has produced possible evidence for the structure of the furnace into which tipping muffles were set.

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  • The open back banjo has a muted sound because the clothing the player is wearing muffles the sound being projected backwards.

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