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PRONUNCIATION OF GAS MANTLE

gas mantle play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAS MANTLE

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Gas mantle is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GAS MANTLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Gas mantle

An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame. The name refers to its original heat source in gas lights which filled the streets of Europe and North America in the late nineteenth century, mantle referring to the way it is hung above the flame. Today it is still used in portable camping lanterns, pressure lanterns and some oil lamps. Gas mantles are usually sold as fabric items which, because of impregnation with metal nitrates, form a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use; these metal oxides produce light from the heat of the flame whenever used. Thorium dioxide was commonly a major component; being radioactive it has led to concerns about the safety of those involved in manufacturing mantles. Normal use, however, poses no health risk.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAS MANTLE

gas giant
gas guzzler
gas heater
gas hog
gas jet
gas lamp
gas laws
gas lighter
gas lighting
gas main
gas mask
gas meter
gas mileage
gas oil
gas oven
gas pedal
gas pipe
gas pipeline
gas plant
gas poker

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAS MANTLE

Blue Mantle
brantle
cantle
disgruntle
dismantle
falcon-gentle
Fremantle
gentle
gruntle
hantle
lady´s mantle
mantle
outmantle
pintle
portmantle
scantle
ungentle
unmantle
wintle

Synonyms and antonyms of gas mantle in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «gas mantle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAS MANTLE

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The translations of gas mantle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gas mantle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

煤气罩
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

manto de gas
570 millions of speakers

English

gas mantle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गैस विरासत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عباءة الغاز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

газ мантии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

manto de gás
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্যাস মেটাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

manteau de gaz
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mantel gas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Glühstrümpfe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ガスマントル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가스 맨틀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mantel gas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khí lớp áo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எரிவாயு மூடகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वायूचे आवरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gaz örtüsü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

manto gas
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

płaszcz gazu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

газ мантії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

manta de gaze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μανδύα του φυσικού αερίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gas mantel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Glödnät
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gassgløde
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAS MANTLE»

The term «gas mantle» is normally little used and occupies the 149.745 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAS MANTLE»

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Pyrometry: The Papers and Discussion of a Symposium on ...
(Chicago Meeting, September, 1919) The incandescent gas mantle is of considerable interest from the standpoint of temperature measurement because it presents a series of apparent contradictions to the established laws of radiation on ...
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1920
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Noble Gas Geochemistry
Therefore, if noble gases were firmly trapped in clumps, mixing time would be considerably longer than 100Ma, and the use of the rate equation to describe noble gas mantle degassing must be questioned. However, if a reservoir is much  ...
Minoru Ozima, Frank A. Podosek, 2002
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Torts and Personal Injury Law
Rather, it moved the gas mantle business to its own plant in lllinois. Following a series of acquisitions, Kerr- McGee acquired Lindsay, and it thus concedes that in this litigation it stands in Lindsay's shoes. Accordingly, we will refer to Lindsay ...
William R. Buckley, Cathy J. Okrent, 2003
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Generator Gas: The Swedish Experience with Wood-gas 1939-1945
The primary- air pipe extends into the aforementioned gas-mantle pipe and is dimensioned so that a cylindrical ring mantle is created between the two pipes. On the somewhat reduced lower end of the primary-air pipe is attached a cylindrical ...
‎1998
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Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
... the worst of the problem was suddenly avoided by a major breakthrough in gas -lighting technology at the beginning of the 1880's, when the egregious Austrian inventor, Baron Auer von Welsbach produced a commercially viable gas mantle ...
Reyner Banham, 1984
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Generator Gas: The Swedish Experience from 1939-1945
The primary- air pipe extends into the aforementioned gas-mantle pipe and is dimensioned so that a cylindrical ring mantle is created between the two pipes. On the somewhat reduced lower end of the primary-air pipe is attached a cylindrical ...
Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (Sweden), Solar Energy Research Institute, United States. Dept. of Energy, 1979
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Remediation of Former Manufactured Gas Plants and Other ...
(Pr).and.neodymium. (Nd),.was.aware.that.certain.rare.earth.elements.emitted.an .incandescent.light.when.heated..The. Welsbach.gas.mantle,.which.could.be. used.in.conjunction.with.a.Bunsen.type.burner,.consisted. of.a.silk,.cotton ...
Allen W. Hatheway, 2011
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Natural Gas in Nontechnical Language
... illuminating properties. But in the late 1800s, the fledgling gas industry was nearly killed off by the introduction of electric lighting, both the arc lamp and Thomas Edison's light bulb. Only the timely invention of the incandescent gas mantle ...
Rebecca L. Busby, 1999
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The Life and Times of James W. Shirley Sr.: You Can Get ...
Our means of lighting the world around our home quarters was by way of a kerosene lamp or a gas mantle. The kerosene lamp needs no explanation to you. The gas mantle I feel most certain is of a different matter. The process begins with a ...
James W. Shirley, Sr., 2013
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Pyrometry
(Chicago Meeting, September, 1919) THE incandescent gas mantle is of considerable interest from the standpoint of temperature measurement because it presents a series of apparent contradictions to the established laws of radiation on ...
American Institute of Mining

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAS MANTLE»

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The shops of old Penicuik - part 2
Taylor had a similar shop to Murray and I remember it on a cold winter evening when it would be lit by a hissing, incandescent gas mantle and ... «MidLothian Advertiser, Jun 15»
2
London Councils chair Jules Pipe on capital concerns
... that everything in the borough is hopeless unless the old greengrocers and candlestick makers and gas mantle manufacturers return. Instead ... «Public Finance, May 15»
3
Camden, Gloucester Superfund site received $222 million in court …
An ongoing environmental cleanup at the Welsbach and General Gas Mantle site has been awarded $222 million in a court settlement, U.S. ... «NJ.com, Feb 15»
4
$438 Million in Funds Headed for Contaminated Site Cleanups in …
The Welsbach Company and the General Gas Mantle Company used radioactive material thorium from the late 1890s to 1941 to make the gas ... «U.S. EPA.gov, Feb 15»
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The Evening Read: 102-year-old Ebba Courtliff shares her World …
“I also remember my mother lowering the gas mantle and making me and Ernie sit under the heavy cloth on the table,” she adds of the time ... «Liverpool Echo, Aug 14»
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Author's Notes: Mhari Dobson's Celtic connections
She in turn, of an evening, with the firewood I'd garnered from the seashore spitting in the hearth and the gas mantle hissing above, took me ... «WalesOnline, Jul 14»
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Brenda Blethyn: “I'll always be working class”
Do you know what a gas mantle is? I'll draw you one.” She grabs a piece of paper, sketches a shapeless gauze bag. “But everyone was in the ... «Radio Times, Apr 14»
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Brenda Blethyn: Downton Abbey glamorises life below stairs
Do you know what a gas mantle is? I'll draw you one. But everyone was in the same boat, on our street anyway.” Watching Downton Abbey ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
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Simple and moreish recipes to keep a growing boy well fed in the …
... booklets were much prized and were stored in the tins to be dipped into and poured over, on a winter's night under the Calor gas mantle. «Western Morning News, Apr 14»
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NOSTALGIA - When the wireless brought real entertainment into our …
... had finished the hand milking we settled around the table where there was a reasonable light from the Calor gas mantle directly overhead, ... «Western Morning News, Feb 14»

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