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Definition of Incandesces
1. incandesce [v] - See also: incandesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incandesces
Literary usage of Incandesces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"This is not a hydrated form of chromium sesquioxide, for it incandesces brightly
when ... filtering, and drying, it still incandesces when heated to 400°. ..."
2. The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation by John Percy (1870)
"By the action of solar light it is also reduced to red-lead with the evolution
of oxygen. It is a strong oxidizing agent. It incandesces in sulphurous acid ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... has an oxyhydrogen flame play upon it and is thereby heated to a temperature
at which it incandesces and gives off an intensely- bright white light. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... has become important since its application to the manufacture of mantle» for
incandesces - gas-lighting. For its extraction trpm zircon thr mineral is ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied, for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1893)
"thermometer, and in the focus of the other a platinum wire made incandesces by
means of a galvanic current. The thermometer was immediately scent rise ..."
6. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"BB " incandesces * and becomes opaque. With nitrate of cobalt gives a blue color.
Colorless bead with borax. ..."
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