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Live steam   /laɪv stim/   Listen
Live steam

noun
1.
Steam coming from a boiler at full pressure.






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"Live steam" Quotes from Famous Books



... is sprayed with germicide and sterilized with live steam. The instruments go into the autoclave, and thirty minutes later we're ready ...
— Pandemic • Jesse Franklin Bone

... sulphuric acid in 150 gallons of water. To get the quickest and best results from this method, the solution should be kept as near the boiling point as possible by having a coil of extra heavy lead pipe running inside the tank and carrying live steam. A very few minutes in this bath will remove the scale and the parts should then be washed in running water. After this washing they should be dipped into a bath of 50 pounds of unslaked lime in 150 gallons of water to ...
— Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting • Harold P. Manly

... done to reduce the bulk of such foods as spinach and other greens, to render them partly sterilized, and to improve their flavor. It consists in dipping the food into boiling water or suspending it over live steam and allowing it to remain there for a longer period of time than is necessary for scalding. To blanch food, place it in a wire basket, a sieve, or a piece of clean cheesecloth and lower it into boiling water or suspend it above the water in a closely covered vessel. Allow it to remain there ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... feed water heaters may be divided into closed heaters, open heaters and economizers; the first two depend for their heat upon exhaust, or in some cases live steam, while the last class utilizes the heat of the waste flue gases to secure the same result. The question of the type of apparatus to be installed is dependent upon the conditions attached ...
— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.



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