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ˈsand-bath
[f. sand n.2 + bath n.1]
1. A vessel of heated sand used as an equable heater for retorts, etc. in various chemical proceses.
1677W. Harris tr. Lemery's Course Chem. 11 These Furnaces may also serve for Distilling by the Refrigeratory, in..the Sand-Bath. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chem. I. 214 Set the retort in a sand-bath fixed over a reverberating furnace. 1880C. & F. Darwin Movem. Pl. 178 Six of the radicles in a jar..which stood on a sand-bath, raised to a temperature varying from 76° to 82° F., became hooked.
attrib.1839Ure Dict. Arts 454 This process must be preceded by the sand-bath operation.
2. A medicinal bath of heated sand or sea-sand.
1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 75 We saw a patient undergoing the sand-bath..for rheumatism.
3. A bath taken by fowls in sand; a dust-bath.
1891in Century Dict. |