These in their simplest form are cans filled with water, which is heated by immersing them in a vessel containing boiling water.
Guncotton is made by immersing cleaned and dried cotton waste in a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids.
While I felt a secret of that magnitude couldn't remain so in an intimate relationship, I equally dreaded immersing myself so deeply into Howie's life.
For example, Wilde produced copper printing surfaces for calico printing-rollers and the like by immersing rotating iron cylinders as cathodes in a copper bath.
The first of these was found by immersing the hydrometer in pure water, and marking the stem at the level of the surface.