An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating incandescent bright white light when heated by a flame. The name...

Danes Mantle (mollusc), a layer of tissue in molluscs which secretes the shell Fireplace mantle or mantel, the hood over the grate of a fire Gas mantle, a...

development of the ferrocerium "flints" used in modern lighters, the gas mantle that brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century,...

of illuminating gas to increase brightness, or indirectly with other components such as the gas mantle or the limelight, with the gas primarily functioning...

sometimes held in position by a belt at the waist. Mantle (monastic vesture) Mantle (royal garment) Gas mantle Mantlet (also sometimes spelt "mantelet") - a...

hot-blast, and cold-blast variants. Pressurized kerosene lamps use a gas mantle; these are known as Petromax, Tilley lamps, or Coleman lamps, among other...

instrumentation, used in some broadcast vacuum tubes, and as the light source in gas mantles, but these uses have become marginal. It has been suggested as a replacement...

deep gas hypothesis proposes that some natural gas deposits were formed out of hydrocarbons deep in the Earth's mantle. Earlier studies of mantle-derived...

A gas stove is a stove that is fuelled by flammable gas such as natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas or syngas. Before the advent of...

General Gas Mantle, or GGM, was a manufacturer of gas mantles and served as a competitor for Welsbach. Unlike Welsbach, General Gas Mantle used only...

(1 January 2002). "Noble Gas Isotope Geochemistry of Mid-Ocean Ridge and Ocean Island Basalts: Characterization of Mantle Source Reservoirs". Reviews...

Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s, a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...

Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example...

A Clamond basket is a kind of gas mantle, invented in the 1880s by the Parisian Charles Clamond, and which he later patented in the United States. It was...

water gas lacked illuminants; it would not burn with a luminous flame in a simple fishtail gas jet as existed prior to the invention of the gas mantle in...

illuminating gas. Blue gas burns with a blue flame and does not produce light except when used with a Welsbach gas mantle. Lowe's Water Gas: Water gas with a...

carbide lamp, gas lighting, kerosene lamp, oil lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas mantle Safety lamps: Davy lamp and Geordie lamp Gas-discharge...

praseodymium, and co-discoverer of lutetium. He was also the inventor of the gas mantle (using thorium) and of the rare-earth industry. After extracting thorium...

incandescent gas mantle by Carl Auer von Welsbach in the 1880s. Following the introduction of the gas mantle, cannel coal lost favour as a manufactured gas feedstock...

standard X-ray contrast agents. Another major use in the past was in gas mantle of lanterns developed by Carl Auer von Welsbach in 1890, which are composed...

Edison's first Pearl Street Station c. 1885 Incandescent gas mantle invented, revolutionises gas lighting. 1886 Great Barrington, Massachusetts demonstration...

contains a burning light source: a candle, liquid oil with a wick, or gas with a mantle. The ancient Chinese sometimes captured fireflies in transparent or...

layer of sand exposed to light before deposition. Cherenkov radiation Gas mantle List of light sources Undark Radium Dial Company United States Radium...

A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust. Mantles are made of rock or ices, and are generally the largest...

the surface of an opaque material to form an integrating sphere. Early gas mantle designs for lighting, such as the Clamond basket, consisted mainly of...

smashed the new lanterns. Gas lighting was invented in the 1800s. A gas mantle was over ten times brighter than an oil lamp. Gas lighting was associated...

Flash-lamp – Electrically ignited photographic light source Gas lighting – Type of artificial light Gas mantle – Device for generating bright light when heated by...

November 1878 in Berlin – 14 May 1943 in Berlin) was a German chemist and gas mantle manufacturer. Oppenheim's father Adolph (1839–1913) worked as a merchant...

the use of a gas mantle mounted above the wick on a kerosene lamp. Looking like a delicate woven bag above the woven cotton wick, the mantle is a residue...

action. The sources of volcanic gases on Earth include: primordial and recycled constituents from the Earth's mantle, assimilated constituents from the...