calcium light
a brilliant white light produced by heating lime to incandescence in an oxyhydrogen or other hot flame; limelight.
Origin of calcium light
1- Also called oxycalcium light.
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How to use calcium light in a sentence
He has thrown a calcium light upon one spot, revealing some defects, and many eyes are for a time drawn towards it.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender BrackettThe calcium light beamed upon the figure of the sleeping lady, while the rest of the stage was comparatively dark.
Magic | Ellis StanyonIf he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium light he would be great.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him | Paul Leicester FordThe Rodin case puts a by no means seldom-recurring phenomenon in the centre of the stage under a calcium light.
The Merry-Go-Round | Carl Van VechtenAlthough the calcium light had vanished in the terrific upheaval, there was no mistaking the locality of the explosion.
A Sub and a Submarine | Percy F. Westerman
British Dictionary definitions for calcium light
another name for limelight
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