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Smoke-con-dens′er.

An apparatus for precipitating the soot and smoke emanating from furnaces underground or in other confined situations. The chimney of the furnace is led into the upper part of the precipitator a, where it encounters a stream of water delivered by a pump into the head of the apparatus and falling through a perforated diaphragm b, termed the strom or strum. The shower of water falls successively through a series of cups c and saucers d, and after having eliminated the fine solid particles from the smoke, is discharged through a pipe at the bottom. Where the water supply is large the cups and saucers may be dispensed with.

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