Air under a bell jar may be kept dry by means of a basin of sulphuric acid, and gases bubbled through it are freed from water-vapour.
By keeping some of this covered with a bell jar for a week or two, so as to retain the moisture, at the end of this time a large crop of the fungus will probably have made its appearance.
The whole electrolysis vessel is then placed under a glass bell jar containing dry air, and kept in a refrigerator until again required for use.
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Bell jars are generally used for classroom demonstrations or by hobbyists, when only a relatively low-quality vacuum is required.
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Although internationally connected, each country's elite lives in abelljarin the sense of being out of touch with its own populace.
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By pumping the air out of thebelljar, vacuum is formed.
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She describes her depression as a feeling of being trapped under abelljar, struggling for breath.
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As the family laugh together, it is revealed that they are models inside abelljaron the street stall seen earlier.
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He portrayed the device as abelljarwith an opening for the air to enter from below.
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For this reason, abelljarcan not be used to contain pressures "above" atmospheric, only below.
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Abelljardemonstrates the reason for using a rocket instead of a propeller in the vacuum of space.
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An example of a classroom science experiment involving abelljaris to place a ringing alarm clock under thebelljar.
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Abelljaris placed on a base which is vented to a hose fitting that can be connected via a hose to a vacuum pump.
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As the air is pumped out of the sealedbelljar, the noise of the alarm clock fades, thus demonstrating that the propagation of sound is mediated by the air.
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They also were expensive compared with traditional gardeners' bell jars and cloches.
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More often, a cloche, orbelljar, refers to a covering made of glass or plastic, placed over individual plants to provide similar protection as row cover.
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The table is covered with scarlet velvet, many papers, a casket, an inkwell with two more feather pens, a barometer, a gasometer, a water still and a glassbelljar.
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His name apparently refers to bell jars.
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