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Argand lamp   Listen
noun
Argand lamp  n.  A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.






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... vessels, Florence flasks, answer well: a bent tube being connected at one end to its month, the other passing into the second vessel; heat should be cautiously applied by means of an Argand lamp, a little vessel of sand being placed under the flask, which helps the acid to decompose the salt. Prussic acid is then generated and passes through the tube to the recipient vessel, which is to ...
— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey



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