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  1. ... to another kind of oath, made of kindled coals,, or burning spirit of wine. The patient being placed in ... See Anthrax. CARBU'NCULUS. (Diminutive of carbo, a burning coal.) A carbuncle. See Anthrax. CARBURET. Carburetum. A combination ...
  2. ... 3. Fat blacksmith’s or bituminous coal. 4. Fat coal burning with a long flame. 5. Dry coal burning with a long flame. 1. Calcination scarcely changes ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of arts and sciences (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Isaac Peirce ..., 1815-1816
    ... viscid, brown, and semi-transparent. When thrown on burning coals it melted, let drops of grease exude, emitted ... which is dried gradually by covering it with burning coals. Then they fill up the pit with earth, ...
  4. ... no danger of its going out. If a coal fire is burning too much, either cover it with some of ... the smoke of brown sugar on burn- ing coals, or of burning leather. ■<un FRUITS, BERRIES, AND MELONS Abound most ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A system of chemistry, in four volumes (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed and published by Abraham Small ..., 1818
    ... fire, and surround it on all sides with burning coals. The extremity of the tube must be plunged ... mouth,f the vessel may be placed upon burning coals without much risk of breaking it. The strong ...
  6. ... palachian coal has shown that a 1000-megawatt coal-burning power plant will discharge into the atmosphere from ... been leached selectively from the sub- | strate. Large, coal-burning central power stations burn pulverized coal, the com- ...
  7. ... while the air was drawn from some soft coal burning chimney. Or stove. These two basic facts are ... come, back with us and smell the soft coal burning stoves and hard coal burning stoves and the ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Natural magick 
    Publication: London : Printed for John Wright ..., 1669
    ... the pot be covered all over with hot burning coals, winin the fpace of one hour, and fo ... melt it in a new earehen pot with burning coals, without flime: let them noc fparkle ; for fo ...
  9. ... heating. Hot water was supplied from separate small coal-burning water heaters, one for each ward. The hospital ... used. The heating system was entirely inadequate and coal-burning stoves were used in the wards and offices. ...
  10. ... Steam, in- cluding the materials and construction of Coal-burning Boilers, Combustion, the Variable Blast, Vaporization, Circulation, Super- ... adaptation of Wood and Coke-burning Engines to Coal-burning; and in Per- manent Way, including Road-bed, ...
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