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Explanation:
It seems that Francesco D'Alesandro is correct:
from
1) The Enc. Britannica:
Blowpipe
a small tubular instrument for directing a jet of air or other gas into a flame in order to concentrate and increase the flame's heat. A blowpipe is usually operated directly by mouth, but a small bellows may also be used.
In mineralogy, the blowpipe technique for analyzing ores was developed by the Swedish mineralogist Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. Its application in qualitative analysis was due to the work of the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius and the German mineralogist Johann Hausmann. By placing a substance in the flame of a blowpipe, information may be obtained as to its general nature by the changes it undergoes during heating and by the residue that remains. By treating the residue with certain reagents and again heating, specific information as to certain elements may be obtained.
Copyright © 1994-2001 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
confirmed also by:
Reader's Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary;
Merriam Webster:
1- a small tubular instrument for directing a jet of air or other gas into a flame in order to concentrate and increase the flame's heat. A blowpipe is usually operated directly by mouth, but a small bellows may also be used.
In mineralogy, the blowpipe technique for analyzing ores was developed by the Swedish mineralogist Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. Its application in qualitative analysis was due to the work of the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius and the German mineralogist Johann Hausmann. By placing a substance in the flame of a blowpipe, information may be obtained as to its general nature by the changes it undergoes during heating and by the residue that remains. By treating the residue with certain reagents and again heating, specific information as to certain elements may be obtained.
Copyright © 1994-2001 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
From Picchi: Il Grande Diz. IT<=>EN, Hoepli, 2001
blowpipe
1 cerbottana
2 (ind, vetr) soffione, cannello, canna da vetraio, cannello ferruminatorio.
fione1
nm
soffione:
1 blowpipe
2 (geol) fumarole
3 ($ spione, raro, popol) squeaker, squealer, stoolpigeon, grass.
Buon lavoro,
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Note added at 2002-06-04 20:04:37 (GMT)
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Nota per Ornella Grannis:
Il richiedente ha chiesto la traduzione di soffione = blowpipe.
Io non vado nel negozio del rivenditore di accessori per caminetti a comperare la cerbottana ma, se proprio ci dovessi andare chiederei di un mantice = bellows.
Comunque, ripeto, il richiedente ha chiesto la traduzione di \"soffione\" e non di \"mantice\". Si può solo presumere che \"chiedendo il traducente di \"soffione\", si sia espresso male o abbia avuto un lapsus linguae.
Dal contesto si può anche ragionevolmente presumere che il richiedente abbia voluto chiedere il traducente di \"mantice\", ma si può, anche ragionevolmente presumere che abbia chiesto il traducente corrispondente a blowpipe.
A questo punto, in mancanza di un chiarimento da parte del richiedente, ritengo inutile continuare il dibattito
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