Blowpipe - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: blowpipeBlowgun
A tube as of cane or reed sometimes twelve feet long through which an arrow sometimes poisoned or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies called also blowpipe and blowtube See Sumpitan...
Blowpipe
A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle so as to concentrate the heat on some object...
Diaspore
A hydrate of alumina often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe...
Intumesce
To enlarge or expand with heat to swell specifically to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat as before the blowpipe...
Pyritology
The science of blowpipe analysis...
Pyrochlore
A niobate of calcium cerium and other bases occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster so called from its becoming grass green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe...
Pyrognostic
Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe as the pyrognostic characters of galena...
Pyrognostics
The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe as the degree of fusibility flame coloration etc...
Pyrosmalite
A mineral usually of a pale brown or of a gray or grayish green color consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron and manganese so called from the odor given off before the blowpipe...
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