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Tube-re-tort′.

A retort made from a glass tube, closed at one end, and sometimes having a swelled bulb.

a (Fig. 6741), Clark's retort, and b, receiver, for the distillation and condensation of small quantities of acid.

c, Faraday's retort and receiver in one piece.

d, Gay Lussac's bent-tube retort, used when a solid is to be heated in a gas confined over mercury.

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