Blowpipes [noun]

A very neat repair can be made with an alcohol lamp and a blowpipe by using a little silver solder.

Then taking a poisoned arrow from his quiver, he puts it in the blowpipe, and collects his breath for the fatal puff.

Here let the blowpipe remain suspended, while you take a view of the arms which are made to slay the larger beasts of the forest.

He wasn't winded, ye see, for his blowpipe was intact, and his gear below-decks sound and ship-shape.

All the work described in this book can quite well be done with a simple foot bellows and a quick-change blowpipe.

This mass of glass should now be rotated in the blowpipe flame until it is quite soft and on the point of running together.

The final closure is made by melting the drawn-out extension in the blowpipe flame; the finished seal being shown by g, Fig. 4.

Now bring the tube into the blowpipe flame gradually, and rotate it, while heating, at the place where it is to be closed.

The thermometer is filled and the top of the capillary tube closed by the use of a small blowpipe flame.

Reheat again until the liquid rises to the top of the tube, then seal by means of the blowpipe flame.