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At the base of the tube A are placed some pieces of broken glass or porcelain, covered by a plug of glass wool about 8 mm. thick, and upon this is placed a thin layer of asbestos, such as is used for Gooch filters, 1 mm. thick. After preparation for use, or when left standing, the tube A should be filled with water, to prevent clogging of the zinc.
In most ordinary stopcocks the plug is solid, but the little handle is hollow. What has been said above regarding care in heating and cooling glass rod applies with especial force here. It is usually best to wind the whole of the plug with several thicknesses of asbestos cord, leaving bare only the end where the handle is to be joined.
Life proves a continuous deception, in great as well as in small matters. If it makes a promise, it does not keep it, unless to show that the coveted object was little desirable. Life is a business that does not pay expenses. Misery and pain form the essential feature of existence. Life is hell, and happy is that man who is able to procure for himself an asbestos overcoat and a fire-proof room.
The writer has crossed the Atlantic more than a dozen times on ships with watertight compartments, a so-called modern safety device, but the Chinese had watertight compartments in their junks hundreds of years before modern steamships were ever dreamed about. To the Chinese we must credit the making of asbestos, the manufacture of lacquer, the carving of ivory and many other important industries.
He and Lynda had demanded, and finally succeeded in obtaining an open space for real logs; disdaining, much to the owner's amazement, an asbestos mat or gas monstrosity. "I really put blood in the thing." "And when may I hear some of it? I'm wild to get back to our beaten tracks."
I was real sick last summer; and when I came to want a holiday I thought I'd do it cheap, so when I got wind of a walking party a set of gentlemen who were surveying I got them to let me go along. Camp follower I was, and 'twas first rate fun, especially as I was on the scent of what they were looking for. So then we came on asbestos in one part. Don't know what that is, my dear?
And I understand that you brought many curiosities with you to this country." Now, Sir Hans was getting to the subject that was near to his heart; for he was a curiosity-hunter. "A few only very few," replied Benjamin. "You have a purse, I understand, made of the asbestos, which purifies by fire?" "Yes, sir, I have."
On one of the plains quartzite cropped out; and silex and fossil wood lay scattered over the rich black soil: the latter broke readily, like asbestos, into the finest filaments, much resembling the fossil wood of Van Diemen's Land. It is difficult to describe the impressions which the range of noble peaks, rising suddenly out of a comparatively level country, made upon us.
The result is, we get a flame of great length, but one which is not at all suited to our requirements; and instead of giving up its heat to the tube and the asbestos lining of the chimney, a large amount of gas we are presumably burning in the chimney is not being burnt there at all, for, on applying a light just above the chimney top, a quantity of this gas we are wasting will be seen to burn with a flickering blue flame.
According to Pausanias, Callimachus made a golden lamp for the Temple of Minerva at Athens, with a wick composed of asbestos, which burned day and night for a year without trimming or replenishing with oil.
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