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A pipeclay triangle is a piece of laboratory apparatus that is used to support a crucible being heated by a Bunsen burner or other heat source. It is made of wires strung in an equilateral triangle on which are strung hollow ceramic, normally fire clay, tubes. The triangle is usually supported on a tripod or iron ring.
White pipe clay, white-firing clay of the sort that is used to fashion smoking pipes Pipeclay triangle, a piece of laboratory equipment, typically made from this material; Catlinite or Pipestone, found in Sioux Quartzite deposits in the upper midwestern and southwestern United States, that is used to fashion smoking pipes
A group of English clay pipes, from the early 17th to late 19th century, none complete, Bedford Museum, 2010. White pipe clay (Dutch: pijpaarde) is a white-firing clay of the sort that is used to make tobacco smoking pipes, which tended to be treated as disposable objects. This suited pipeclay, which is not very strong.
Smoking pipes molded from wet clay are different from those where the bowl is carved from solid pipestone and then fitted with a wooden stem (as is the case with Catlinite pipes). The Eastern Band Cherokee are social smokers, and use molded clay pipes for this purpose.
Vitrified clay pipe (VCP) is pipe made from a blend of clay and shale that has been subjected to high temperature to achieve vitrification, which results in a hard, inert ceramic. VCP is commonly used in gravity sewer collection mains because of its long life and resistance to almost all domestic and industrial sewage , particularly the ...
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
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The triangle, viewed face-on, appears equilateral. In (4), the distances of P from lines BC , AC and AB are denoted by a ′ , b ′ and c ′ , respectively. For any line l = s + t n̂ in vector form ( n̂ is a unit vector) and a point p , the perpendicular distance from p to l is