Blowpipe is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLOWPIPE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a long straight tube from which an arrow, pellet, etc. is blown by the breath, also BLOWGUN, BLOWTUBE
• a primitive weapon consisting of a long tube through which an arrow or dart is propelled by force of the breath.
• a long tube by means of which molten glass is blown into the required shape.
• a tube used to intensify the heat of a flame by blowing air or other gas through it at high pressure.
• long tube from which darts etc are shot by blowing
• A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
• A blowgun; a blowtube.
• a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
• a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a blowgun

Words related to BLOWPIPE

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Words that contain BLOWPIPE

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How to use BLOWPIPE in a sentence

• The goldsmith blows merrily all day through his little blowpipe, but it is gold he is working on.
• Minute after minute sped by, as the line burned by the blowpipe cut straight from top to bottom.
• This classical sport, as practised in Borneo, involved the discharge of poisoned darts through a blow-pipe, and the House of Commons has not materially altered the method.
• Zorzi took the long iron blow-pipe, cleaned it with a cloth and pushed the end through the orifice from which he had taken the specimen.
• He pushed his blow-pipe into the melted glass and drew it out, let it cool a moment and then thrust it in again to take up more of the stuff.
• Only Giovanni watched, standing far enough back to be out of reach of the long blow-pipe if Zorzi should unexpectedly swing it to its full length.
• There was more danger in either of these than with our blowpipe device, and no better results were obtained, though the cost was greater.
• Escrocevitch handed him a new piece of charcoal to sprinkle dust on, and once more brought the blow-pipe into operation.
• Then procure a tin blowpipe and blow the flame against the metal at the point to be bent.
• Perhaps during the last fifty years, no department of chemistry has been so enriched as that relating to analysis by means of the Blowpipe.
• To produce an efficient flame of oxidation, put the point of the blowpipe into the flame about one third the diameter of the wick, and about one twelfth of an inch above it.
• The flame of oxidation will again convert this oxide into the acid, and this conversion is a good test of the progress of the student in the use of the blowpipe.
• The substance to be examined must be put in the tube near one end, and exposed to the flame of the blowpipe.
• But in many cases it melts too freely, and therefore it is better to mix it, for blowpipe analysis, with an equal quantity of soda.
• In blowpipe analysis, we use it fused with carbonate of soda to a bead, as a test for sulphuric acid, and in some cases for phosphoric acid.
• These at once lead into the special analysis of all those substances susceptible of examination by the blowpipe.
• But if a greater temperature is required, then recourse must be had to the blowpipe.
• This color is best discovered in the outer flame of the blowpipe, as is the case with all the other colors.
• Nearly all the ores of copper and its salts, give a bright green color to the blowpipe flame.
• The alkalies cannot be reduced to the metallic state before the blowpipe.
• This color presents the same modifications as the corresponding ones communicated to the blowpipe as mentioned above.
• After being submitted to the blowpipe flame all the nickel is reduced, and the bead becomes colorless.
• In taking cognizance of water in relation to blowpipe analysis, we regard it only as existing in minerals.
• It is where the difference of two minerals cannot be distinguished by their physical appearance, that the aid of the blowpipe comes in most significantly as an auxiliary.
• Thus, in a very short time, these two minerals can be distinguished from each other by aid of the blowpipe, while no amount of physical examination could determine that point.

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