Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., an oven surrounded on all sides but the front or top with a chamber of boiling water or steam, used for drying chemical preparations, etc.
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Examples
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This is then dried in the water-oven, when if any boric acid compound is present, a bright reddish-pink stain is produced on the paper, which is turned blue on moistening with dilute alkali.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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The residue retained by the filter paper is washed with petroleum ether until free from fat, dried in the water-oven at 100° C. and weighed.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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It was then warmed on a water-oven, kept in a vacuum desiccator over solid paraffin, and the weight estimated.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
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The last traces of solvent remaining in the flask are removed by gently warming in the water-oven, and the flask cooled and weighed, thus giving the amount of unsaponifiable matter.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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~ -- Five grams of the powdered sample is dried between watch-glasses in the water-oven for two hours, or till its weight is constant; and the loss is reported as water lost at 100° C.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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~Total Solids at 100° C. ~ -- Where simply the amount is required, take 100 c.c. and evaporate on the water-bath in a weighed dish; then dry in the water-oven, and weigh.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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After being dipped in the beaker of water and once or twice in that with the alcohol, it is dried in the water-oven for about three minutes, and then weighed.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Wash the precipitate with hot water, dry in the water-oven or at a low temperature.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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_In assaying ores_, we term "moisture" all water which is lost by exposure in a water-oven at 100° C., and the "dry ore" is the ore which has been dried at this temperature.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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These are placed in the water-oven (fig. 20), and, when apparently dry, they are taken from the funnel, placed between glasses, and then left in the oven till they cease to lose weight.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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