Shot in the dark, but the barb and filling remind me of the DIY foundries you see online. Perhaps a way to add air or fuel and the thick lining is a heat resistant material to prevent the pipe from melting while in use.
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Guessing.
Something to do with fluid mixing/filtration/reaction. Fair amount of quick and dirty, not a production item. Low pressure, just a few psi. Water treatment, meth, process prototype, pesticides, agricultural water.
There are green forms of arsenic. Wouldn't go licking it, wash hands after touching. Don't hang on to it.
I've built plink-around cannons like this - fuse goes through the hose barb, cement inside, cast around a dowel and bam, cannon. Not saying that's what this absolutely is, but it's yet another option.
One time,I had about 15 inches of iron pipe left over from a project that I used to test a new step drill bit. It already had an odd angle cut on one end. I found myself with a half-used can of expanding foam and I broke the nozzle, so I just sprayed it into the end of the pipe to see what happenes. When it dried, it ended up in a dumpster. We joked that future anthropologists would be so fucking confused finding it. This reminds me of that.
My point is, maybe it's nothing and don't worry about it.
I suspect that the metal tube with the fitting could be part of a hydraulic cylinder from a piece of heavy construction or farm equipment, from the part that would lift/lower/tilt something? Not sure what the tube is filled with, but it looks like a lot of corrosion.
99.99% sure, that's a bong.
I was going to reply with "you can't use barbed fittings at high pressures", but I looked it up and found some claiming 150psi (10 atmospheres). Huh. Perhaps this did start life as a hydraulic cylinder that has had some parts lopped off.
Not sure what the tube is filled with, but it looks like a lot of corrosion.
I don't think it's built up corrosion. The pipe is steel and corrodes to red/brown iron oxide, as visible around the circumference at the end. The green colour in the filling is not an iron oxide. It might be a copper oxide, or some dye in the white material.
That's a bong, missing the bowl. The bowl would have been a 90° female fitting like this 
It even has a tiny carb hole next to the mouth hole. I'm guessing that the interior is plaster of Paris or something similar.
I've smoked out of worse
You have never bonged before, sir, and it shows.
It's no roor but it'll rip in a pinch if you tilt it 45 deg. And put a cup of wet in it. You've clearly never smoked out of a garden hose triple perks Gatorade bong before.
China glass used to not be a thing.
My high point was a chest cooler filled with water and a five gallon jug with the end cut off. Made a wicked gravity bong.
I wouldn't expect a carb to be in that location.
It doesn't strike me as a bong.
Also, I bet the lining always had some sort of hole thru it.
Hmm. I admittedly don't have experience here, but I guess that makes sense.
I'm not sure how you would attach an elbow to a barb fitting though. A rubber pipe is usually used on these (but that would then burn/melt).
Is plaster of paris usually used to make bongs? I've only really noticed plastic bottle ones in the bush. I guess plaster will survive burning things better than plastic, but it's also porous.


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