Condensing
[kən'densiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condense
Editor: Peter
Examples
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Each condensing surface is connected with earth by an electrical conducting wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The heat given out by the condensing steam passes into the surrounding air and warms the room. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The high-resistance secondary circuit of an induction coil is located in circuit between the condensing surface and the ground. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Stephenson did for the locomotive what Watt did for the condensing engine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He therefore closed the cylinder and provided a separate condensing vessel into which the steam was led after it raised the piston. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In that way the air pressure did the work of lifting the weight, and the necessary vacuum was obtained by forming steam and then condensing it in the cylinder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For receiving signals I locate in said circuit between the condensing surface and the ground a diaphragm sounder, which is preferably one of my electromotograph telephone receivers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oliver Evans, the great American contemporary of Watt, had in 1779 devised a high-pressure non-condensing steam engine in a form still used. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- At these elevated points, whether upon the masts of ships, upon poles or balloons, condensing surfaces of metal or other conductor of electricity are located. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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