DRUMMOND LIGHT

Definition: DRUMMOND LIGHT

DRUMMOND LIGHT

1. A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Drummond light \Drum"mond light`\ [From Thomas Drummond, a British naval officer.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: DRUMMOND LIGHT

Domain	Definition
Literature	Drummond Light The limelight. So named from Captain Thomas Drummond, R.E. "Wisdom thinks, and makes a solar Drummond Light of a point of dull lime." - Geikie: Entering on Life (Reading, p.211). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: DRUMMOND LIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-g-h-i-l-m-m-n-o-r-t-u"
	-4 letters: thrumming.
	-5 letters: drumming, huddling, humoring, hurdling, hurtling, midmonth, moulding, moulting, mouthing, muddling, ruddling, thudding, toddling.
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