Sentence examples for conical plug from inspiring English sources
The solution was found by Claude-Étienne Minié of France, who in 1849 developed a soft lead bullet with a cavity in its base into which a conical plug was fitted.
A plug valve, or cock, is a conical plug with a hole perpendicular to its axis fitting in a conical seat in the valve body at right angles to the pipe.
The bullet's diameter was small enough that it slid freely down the gun bore, and the sudden inflammation of the propellant charge upon firing drove the conical plug forward to expand the lead bullet tightly into the grooves of the rifled bore.
We were glad we did because, as we climbed slowly through pastureland, we were treated to expansive views of the conical volcanic plug of North Berwick Law, its seabound twin Bass Rock, and across the Firth of Forth to the Isle of May.
Three open keys for b, c' and c-sharp are fitted with conical pewter plugs.
Badger retained the rods on the outer side of the foot joint and used conical pewter plugs seated in metal plates for c' and c'-sharp.
nationaltrust.org.uk/brownsea Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde This uninhabited, conical island (a "volcanic plug") rises dramatically out of the sea about 10 miles west of Girvan, and glows pinky-red at sunset.
Several 500-mL conical flasks with cotton plugs were filled each with 50 mL medium, inoculated with an agar-plate culture as described in [14], and shaken with 250 rpm at 32°C.
Cotton-wool plugged 25 ml conical flasks of Brucella broth prepared as above, were inoculated with H. pylori (~106 CFU/ml)[ 11].
After 20 min at 4°C, the resulting gel was cut into 10 × 5 mm rectangles, and these "plugs" were transferred into a conical 50 ml polypropylene tube containing 40 ml of lysis buffer (STEX buffer containing 1% w/vN-lauroylsarcosine and 300 mg/ml proteinase K).
The plugs were then transferred to 50-mL conical centrifuge tubes and washed with 10 mL of sterile distilled water for 15 minutes, then five times in 10 mL of the previously described Tris EDTA buffer for 30 minutes each.
