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Drummond light
The lime-light, or oxyhydrogen light (invented by Capt. T. Drummond, R.E., c 1825), wherein a blow-pipe flame, e.g. of combined oxygen and hydrogen, impinges on a piece of pure lime, and renders it incandescent.
1854J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc., Chem. 298 The combination evolves what is..known as the Drummond Light. 1870J. C. Geikie Life (ed. 3) 211 Wisdom thinks, and makes a solar Drummond light of a point of dull lime. |