'mouth blowpipe' definitions:

Definition of 'mouth blowpipe'

From: GCIDE
  • Blowpipe \Blow"pipe`\, n.
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A blowgun; a blowtube. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]