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Welsbach burners

Welsbach burners is the plural of Welsbach burner.

Meaning of Welsbach burner

Noun

Welsbach burner (plural Welsbach burners)

  1. A burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapour is used to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium, drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash.

Questions about Welsbach burners

What is Welsbach burners the plural of?
Welsbach burners is the plural of Welsbach burner.

Words near Welsbach burners in the dictionary

  1. Welrods
  2. wels
  3. wels catfish
  4. Welsbach
  5. Welsbach burner
  6. Welsbach burners
  7. Welsbach mantle
  8. Welsbach mantles
  9. Welsbachs
  10. Welsby
  11. Welsch

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