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gas mantle
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Origin of gas mantle1
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Example Sentences
Place a flattened gas mantle upon a photographic plate and leave in a light tight-box for several days.
Failing either of these conveniences, acetylene or petrol gas, the latter with the incandescent gas mantle, can take their place.
The application of the incandescent gas mantle is limited by the intensity of the heat emitted and the large area of the source.
It was a gasoline lamp that burned with a gas mantle, swinging from the ceiling, flooding the little shop with a greenish light.
The Spielman paper mill stood where the gas-mantle factory of Curtis and Harvey is now found.
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