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Example sentences for "blue flame"

  • The oxide of zinc, when strongly heated, gives a blue flame.

  • If this incrustation be heated under the reducing flame, it disappears with a blue flame.

  • Upon examining the flame thus produced, we will observe a long, blue flame, a b, Fig.

  • Such an admixture can be detected if it be mixed with bisulphate of potassa, and exposed upon platinum wire to the interior or blue flame.

  • Kiss Miklos turned to a blue flame, and the twenty-four-headed dragon to a red one.

  • Turn thou into a blue flame, and I will turn into a red one, and whichever can put the other out, his will be the steed of the sun and the shining sun upon him.

  • He will be a red and I a blue flame, but even then we shall not be able to conquer one the other, for we shall be of equal strength.

  • It is highly inflammable, burning with a pale-blue flame, and giving off sulphurous and carbonic-acid gases.

  • Its vapour is inflammable, and burns with a blue flame.

  • It readily takes fire, and burns with a blue flame, without smoke.

  • He then works about with his paddle the clotty metal, which swells up, with the discharge of gaseous oxide of carbon, burning with a blue flame, as if the bath were on fire.

  • Acetic acid readily takes fire when it is heated in open vessels to the boiling point, and it burns with a blue flame, nearly like alcohol.

  • Carbonic oxide burns with a blue flame, giving 2 volumes of carbonic anhydride from 2 volumes of carbonic oxide, just as 2 volumes of hydrogen give 2 volumes of aqueous vapour.

  • A blue flame is then observed burning above the coal; this is the burning carbonic oxide.

  • The cyanogen burns, in this case, with a blue flame; although it is usually of a purple colour.

  • There is another compound called hyposulphurous acid, all the salts of which are inflammable and burn with a blue flame.

  • The chimney must set on the burner properly, or the stove will not burn with a blue flame.

  • As the vapor rises, it is mixed with air and burns with a blue flame.

  • To make gas burn with a blue flame--that is, to secure complete combustion--air must be mixed with it.

  • The opening for air must be adjusted from time to time so as to keep the proportion of gas and air such that it will produce a blue flame.

  • It burns with a blue flame, reddens litmus, and when fused into water forms a colourless solution, which becomes brown by exposure to the air, owing to the oxidation of hydrogen and the deposition of tellurmin.

  • It burns in air, when strongly heated, with a blue flame having a green rim, and giving off white fumes that have a peculiar odour.

  • Heat moderately in crucible till greenish-blue flame ceases, then suddenly increase heat, and obtain a button of metal.

  • It extinguishes a candle with a blue flame.

  • They must be heated till they have for some time emitted a vapour that burns with a blue flame.

  • This composition melts, and yields a blue flame, before it explodes.

  • As if conjured up by magic, a monstrous column of blue flame arose, swept up scorchingly, and licked like the tongue of a hungry dragon upon the roof of the cavern.


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