1868 The complete Practical Distiller

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tube : this mode of fastening has been considered the E F is a safety-tube, which is also used in filling the still, and which plunges into the latter to about 5 centimetres from the bottom. This tube is a safety-tube, insomuch as it would cause the water to run out by its orifice E if the pressure in the still was too great ; and it also shows, by giving passage to the steam, when the water should be renewed in the most commodious.

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G is a cock fixing the level of the water in the still when charged. To effect this it is always open, in a con-