Drummond light: alternatives and connections

The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antag…

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fe…

Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…

The act or process of converting into gas.

A game of chance played with dice.

See under Hydro-.

An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no…

A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the…