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The clay triangle is used to hold a crucible while thecrucible is heated
Are you talking about a pipe stem triangle? It's composed of twisted wire running through three clay pipes in the shape of an equilateral triangle. It is placed on an iron ring attached to a ring stand, and is used to hold a crucible over the flame of a Bunsen burner.
A pipestem triangle is made from galvanized steel and porcelain pipe. It is used to support a crucible on a ring when it is being heated by a burner.
To find this you need to imagine the pipe slit straight down and rolled out. At this point what you have is 10 right triangles, with the base of the triangle being the circumference of the pipe and the height of the triangle being the height of the pipe divided by the number of wrappings. The hypotenuse then is the length of one wrapping. Multiply that number by the number of wrappings and voila, you have the length of the wire.
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