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Definition of Incandesce
1. Verb. Cause to become incandescent or glow. "The lamp was incandesced"
2. Verb. Become incandescent or glow with heat. "An incandescing body"
Definition of Incandesce
1. Verb. To cause to be (or to become) incandescent, especially by the application of heat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incandesce
1. [v -DESCED, -DESCING, -DESCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incandesce
Literary usage of Incandesce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds by Simeon Shaw (1900)
"In distilled water wash well some manganese in powder ; evaporate dry ; add half
the weight of muriate of ammonia, and during twenty minutes incandesce ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"It is probable that Drummond is one of the earliest discoverers of the fact that
heated oxides of certain elements incandesce. Certainly he made the first ..."
3. Electrical Review (1891)
"The American Elevator Company, & lane, London. (Otis Bros, and Co., United Sti
SEPTEMBER 19. An improved switch holder for incandesce lamps. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... to incandesce the mantle. If air be passed over or through a vessel containing
petrol, the resulting mixture is of very uncertain composition, ..."
5. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1901)
"... the salts converted into the oxides and a skeleton hood or cap thus prepared,
which would incandesce when a heating flame was applied to it. ..."
6. Elements of mineralogy by James Nicol (1873)
"Opaque or translucent on the edges ; vitreous, often resinous. Black; streak
greenish-gray. BB the conchoidal (vitreous) varieties incandesce vividly, ..."
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