Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tube of hard (Bohemian) glass, infusible except at high temperatures, in which substances are subjected to heat, as in ultimate analysis.
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The burette is connected by a rubber tube and a Y-piece, either with another burette or with a piece of ordinary combustion-tube of about the same size.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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