air-blast

Justin rolled up the right sleeve of Gran's blouse and held the air-blast hypo just above her biceps.

The Disunited States of America 2006

Herald and other great papers ready to place their orders, Paige suddenly discovered that it required some kind of an air-blast, and it was all taken down again and the air-blast, which required months to invent and perfect, was added.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The air-blast generator or whatever wasn't a test.

Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

Quick freezing - the washed, peeled corms are blanched for 4 minutes in steam at 99-100°C in single layers on wire mesh trays; they are then cooled immediately in an air-blast, packed into cans and frozen in a blast freezer at - 32°C then held at - 18°C for periods up to 12 months.

Chapter 13 1987

What I was looking at was something that could produce an air-blast pressure of a million pounds per square inch and a temperature of four thousand degrees centigrade and a fragmentation velocity of twenty thousand feet per second and it would do this if I made a single wrong move.

Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

To this end he made a furnace into which passed an air-blast pipe, through which a stream of air was forced into the mass of melted metal.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

Attach each pipette in turn to the rubber tube of the foot bellows, or blowpipe air-blast, and blow air through the pipette until the interior is dry.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

The "trick" glass-blower I referred to employed a foot bellows in connection with a small weighted gasometer, the Westinghouse Company used their ordinary air-blast, and I have generally used a large gas-holder with which I am provided, which is supplied by a Roots blower worked by an engine.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

Air Forces in the air-blast method for cleaning airplane engines and parts.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

An air-blast is injected through the molten mass, and the impurities are burnt, or oxidised as it is chemically termed.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman