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Excerpt from A Manual of Experiments Illustrative of Chemical Science
Fm. 2. The Alcoholic Blowpipe, on the principle of that of Dr. Hook. It is used in France, and is a very powerful instrument. If a quart of water, contained in a tin canister, be exposed to the agency of its ?ame, it is boiled in about 2; minutes.
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