The specimen is placed in a suitable vessel, evaporating dish or crucible and ignited.
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Shallow glass evaporating dishes are commonly termed " watch glasses ", since they resemble the front window of a pocket watch.
3.
In the determination of silicon content in an organic sample, a small and accurately-measured quantity of a substance is added to the large amount of sulfuric acid, then heated in an evaporating dish.
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Unlike wire gauze, which primarily supports glassware such as flasks, or evaporating dishes and provides indirect heat transfer to the glassware, the pipeclay triangle normally supports a crucible and allows the flame to heat the crucible directly.