单词 | retort glass |
释义 | > as lemmasretort glass a. General attributive, as retort cap, retort furnace, retort glass, retort house, retort process, etc.See also retort bench at bench n. 10d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > other furnaces retort furnace1688 stew1688 reheating furnace1818 reheating oven1839 water oven1848 Siemens producer1866 decomposing furnace1876 reheat furnace1931 exfoliator1944 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xi. 424/1 He beareth Sable, a Stillers Retort, or a Retort Glass, Argent. 1734 Builder's Dict. II. at Varnish Take two Quarts of Spirit of Wine, and put it into a Retort Glass. 1789 C. R. Hopson tr. J. C. Wiegleb Gen. Syst. Chem. i. iv. 75 Professor Weigel's description of a new retort-furnace is worthy of the Reader's attention. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 359 Retort caps are cylinders of thin brass plate. 1837 Pract. Masonry ii. viii. 141 The mouths of the retort are at one side of the benches, and the furnace doors at the other; an arrangement which certainly requires a capacious retort-house. 1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 143 Experiments with pipette-bulbs and retort-flasks. 1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xvi. 308 Flotation concentrates from low-grade ore give trouble in the retort process owing to their fineness. 1973 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 10 Dec. 11/3 The retort house, now an empty shell, is still a sound structure. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) iv. 88 Almost every type of apparatus suitable for the purpose has been adapted, including..retort furnaces. 2004 S. A. Barringer in J. S. Smith & Y. H. Hui Food Processing xxix. 480/2 Most tomato products undergo a retort process to ensure an adequate shelf life. < as lemmas |
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