Incandescence
[,ɪnkən'dɛsns]
Definition
(noun.) light from heat.
(noun.) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised.
Edited by Amber--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.
Editor: Rodney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. White heat.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Incalescence, glow, white_heat
ANT:Iciness, congelation, refrigeration, crystallization
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Examples
- The Cowles process heats to incandescence by the electric current a mixture of alumina, carbon and copper, the reduced aluminum alloying with the copper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This time the carbon strip burned at incandescence for about eight minutes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The above are sufficient to illustrate the direct clearness of judicial decision on Edison's position as the founder of the art of electric lighting by incandescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With the best vacuum that he could then get by means of the ordinary air-pump, the carbons would last, at the most, only from ten to fifteen minutes in a state of incandescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To the lay mind it would seem that this must have been THE obvious device to make in order to obtain electric light by incandescence of carbon or other material. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For a long time, the only gas flame used was that in which the luminosity resulted in heating particles of carbon to incandescence. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He also placed some of these refractory metals directly in the circuit, bringing them to incandescence, and used silicon in powdered form in glass tubes placed in the electric circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If now the gas cock is opened, the escaping gas is ignited, the heat of the flame will raise the mantle to incandescence and will produce a brilliant light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This horseshoe of carbonized paper seemed incapable to resist mechanical shocks and to maintain incandescence for any considerable length of time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This lamp, when put on the circuit, lighted up brightly to incandescence and maintained its integrity for over forty hours, and lo! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The carbon was lighted up to incandescence, and, of course, oxidized and disintegrated immediately. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A very small amount of burning gas is sufficient to raise the mantle to incandescence, and hence, by the use of a mantle, intense light is secured at little cost. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A fine, hairlike filament within a glass bulb is raised to incandescence by the heat of an electric current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This mantle is suspended above the flame arising from a proper admixture of air and gas, and is heated thereby to a brilliant incandescence which furnishes the light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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