GLOVER'S TOWER

Definition: GLOVER'S TOWER

GLOVER'S TOWER

1. (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid , under Sulphuric , and Gay Lussac's tower , above.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: GLOVER'S TOWER

Domain	Definition
Mining	In sulfuric acid works, a tower through which the acid from the Gay-Lussac tower trickles and yields nitrous anhydride to the gases entering the lead chambers, at the same time cooling them. CF:Gay-Lussac's tower. (references)
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Anagrams: GLOVER'S TOWER

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