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noun

Blowpipe n.

A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object. Note: It is called a mouth blowpipe when used with the mouth; but for both chemical and industrial purposes, it is often worked by a bellows or other contrivance. The common mouth blowpipe is a tapering tube with a very small orifice at the end to be inserted in the flame. The oxyhydrogen blowpipe, invented by Dr. Hare in 1801, is an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, taken from separate reservoirs, in the proportions of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen, are burned in a jet, under pressure. It gives a heat that will consume the diamond, fuse platinum, and dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances.

A blowgun; a blowtube.

Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe.

Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

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Etymology of 'Blowpipe'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blowpipe" Quotes from Famous Books

... ramifications, for instance, he advises that a probe should be inserted into the vein, and the point of the probe gradually advanced as the surrounding tissue is cut away, so that finally the minute branches are exposed; and he describes the use of the blowpipe, and other instruments used in dissection. He carried out the experiment of tying the iliac and axillary arteries in animals, and found that this procedure stopped the pulse in the leg and arm, but caused no serious symptoms, and he found that even the carotid arteries could be tied without causing ...

— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

... to the ways of the wind when she plants, why should not we? A bed of the hardiest roses set on a hill crest is a folly. Much more likely would they be to thrive wholly on the north side of it. A garden set in a cut between hills that form a natural blowpipe can at best do no more than hold its own, ...

— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

... smoldered slowly along, until it felt the first fanning of the rising gale. In another minute it flared as if under a blowpipe, and soon a fierce sheet of flame came bursting through ...

— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard

Words linked to "Blowpipe" : blow tube, tubing