acetylene

• When the shaft was sufficiently cooled, oxy-acetylene or propane torch could be applied to the gear hub, and when that was sufficiently heated, the puller applied.
• Ideally, of course, you would also know many of the answers - that the Battle of Chickamauga happened in 1863, or that acetylene is the common name of ethyne - but, for most of us, that's the hardest part. —  The Daily Princetonian, 2009-06-03
• After these come acetylene, a gas giving an intense light of high actinic power. —  Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
• He installed another plant of machinery--acetylene or some such contrivance--which was intended to drive all the little machines from one big belt. —  The Lost Girl
• This is why we are going to establish the net cost of the different lights; for, although up to the present the contest has seemed to be limited to gas and electricity (oil and kerosene not being capable of having any other pretension than to preserve their position), a new competitor--acetylene--will perhaps soon put gas manufacturers and electricians in accord, to the great benefit of the public, by furnishing a brilliant light at a price that defies competition Illustration: THE DENAYROUSE LAMP In all systems of lighting, save electricity, the unit of light is the carcel. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896

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