A piece of cork placed near the end of the platinum tube, where the gas is evolved, immediately carbonizes and inflames.
He examined this, and then gave it to one of his assistants, telling him to cut it up and get out of it all the filaments he could, carbonize them, put them into lamps, and try them.
It is a fan-shaped instrument to help deaf people, and is made of flexible carbonized rubber.
Otherwise, the heat dries and carbonizes the wood.
This cooling is rendered necessary, because without it the oil would be carbonized, and lubrication of the cylinder rendered impossible.
The palynomorphs are, in general, poorly preserved, moderately carbonized, brown to dark brown, and often pyrite-impregnated.
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This allowed observation of opaque (carbonized) microfossils, and also assessment of the fossil nature of the isolated microstructures.
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A fine-grained, crudely stratified and reversely graded zone (30 cm thick) containing rare carbonized twig and leaf fragments occurs at the base.
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Within the chamber, the matrix containing the sherds was dark black and appeared to consist of almost pure carbonized material with little soil intermixing.
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Through frying, one can sear or evencarbonizethe surface of foods while caramelizing sugars.
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The scrolls are badly carbonized, but a large number have been unrolled, with varying degrees of success.
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The charcoal used in chanoyu for the most part is made of chestnut-leaved oak ("kunugi"), carbonized by long hours of smoldering in a kiln.
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Those fibers were manufactured by heating strands of rayon until they carbonized.
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Completelycarbonizebeams and burning on the underside of floors suggests the fire was deliberate.
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During sintering, the binders either burn off orcarbonizeand form a crystalline structure between the carbon, copper and other additives.
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The discovery of food processing tools and carbonized seeds suggest that these people were growing much of their food.
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Often present are fragmented fish and animal bones, carbonized shell, charcoal, ash, and other waste products, all embedded in a sequence of soil that has been deposited atop the hearth.
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