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Nernst lamps

Nernst lamps is the plural of Nernst lamp.

Meaning of Nernst lamp

Noun

Nernst lamp (plural Nernst lamps)

  1. A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.
    • Chick Counterfly had already brought out of its storage locker a peculiar-looking optical contraption of prisms, lenses, Nernst lamps, and adjustment screws, into an appropriate receptacle of which he now carefully placed the pearl.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 127

Questions about Nernst lamps

What is Nernst lamps the plural of?
Nernst lamps is the plural of Nernst lamp.

Words near Nernst lamps in the dictionary

  1. Nernst effects
  2. Nernst equation
  3. Nernst equations
  4. Nernst heat theorem
  5. Nernst lamp
  6. Nernst lamps
  7. Nernstian
  8. Nero
  9. nero antico
  10. nero di seppia
  11. Nero Wolfe

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