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Pre-serv′a-to-ry.

An apparatus for preserving substances to be used as foods, etc. In the example (Fig. 3933), the articles are placed within the chambers A A′, etc., connected with a combustioncham-ber D′, by which the air is desiccated and its oxygen partially removed; it is afterward passed through [1784] the deoxygenating-chamber G G′, containing a compound which has an affinity for that gas, and which combines with that remaining after desiccation. The air, both before and after deoxygenation, is caused to circulate through the various parts of the apparatus by means of the bellows G‴.

Preservatory.

Preserve-jar.

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