Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing
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- LABORATORY MANUAL
- OF
- GLASS-BLOWING
- LABORATORY MANUAL
- OF
- GLASS-BLOWING
- FRANCIS C. FRARY, Ph. D.
- McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc.
- 239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK 6 BOUVERIE STREET, LONDON, E. C. 1914
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LABORATORY MANUAL OF GLASS-BLOWING
- CHAPTER I
- Materials and Apparatus
- CHAPTER II
- General Operations
- CHAPTER III
- ELEMENTARY EXERCISES EXERCISE NO. 1
- Joining Two Pieces of Tubing, End to End—First Method
- EXERCISE NO. 2
- Joining Two Tubes End to End—Second Method
- EXERCISE NO. 3
- The "Tee" Tube
- EXERCISE NO. 4
- To Join Two Tubes of Different Diameters
- EXERCISE NO. 5
- Tube for Condensing Sulphur Dioxide
- EXERCISE NO. 6
- Bulb at the End of a Tube
- EXERCISE NO. 7
- Blowing a Bulb in a Tube
- CHAPTER IV
- Advanced Exercises EXERCISE NO. 8
- Sealing a Tube Through Another Tube First Method—Making a Gas-washing Tube
- EXERCISE NO. 9
- Sealing a Tube Through Another Tube Second Method—Making a Suction Pump
- CHAPTER V
- Modified Methods and Special Operations
- CAPILLARY TUBING
- GLASS ROD
- MENDING STOPCOCKS
- CLOSED CIRCUITS OF TUBING.
- SPIRALS
- GROUND JOINTS
- SEALING IN PLATINUM WIRE
- SEALING VACUUM TUBES
- CLOSED TUBES FOR HEATING UNDER PRESSURE
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