Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tube which is kept hot to serve as an igniter for the charge of an internal-combustion engine.
- noun In chem., a small glass tube, closed at one end and often at this end expanded into a bulb, used to ignite or strongly heat in a blowpipe flame a fragment of mineral or other substance in order to observe the evolution of gas or vapor.
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Examples
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In the ignition-tube a sort of metallic deposit appeared.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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"That forms hydrogen gas," he explained, "which passes through the drying-tube and the ignition-tube.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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