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Example sentences for "acetylene"

Lexicographically close words:
acetates; acetic; aceto; acetone; acetous; ach; ache; ached; achene; achenes
  1. We found ourselves in a dining room with a long white table and inverted soup-plates, tomb-cold, lighted by an acetylene flare.

  2. Here was a long table with soup-plates upside down and a lamp burning an uncanny naked acetylene flame.

  3. A few yards beyond the point where the thoroughfares joined an automobile was halted, its twin acetylene lamps gleaming like the eyes of some fabled monster in the semigloom.

  4. It was beyond the glow of the acetylene lights, but the moonlight brought it out of the gloom like a white blur.

  5. Instantly a glow from the acetylene lamps flooded the gloom ahead.

  6. Out of the gully, directly in advance of them, had rolled a white automobile--springing ghostlike out of the darkness as it came under the glare of the acetylene lights.

  7. How Radcliffe wished he had his acetylene lamp!

  8. True, acetylene gas lamps properly protected from the wind could be made to light up the ground below when alighting, but at an altitude of even a mile, little can be seen of the landscape to guide one on one's course.

  9. It had a good balcony, and was lit by home-made acetylene gas.

  10. Passing through an outer hall, they came to a narrow chamber where, by the light of an acetylene lamp, a being looking like a gnome or a ghoul was sitting on the edge of a long stone coffin grubbing in the dust and ashes that filled it.

  11. It was discovered in 1836 by Edmond Davy, who produced carburet of potassium, and evolved acetylene gas therefrom by decomposing it with water.

  12. Acetylene gas finds its principal uses for isolated plants, and in country houses.

  13. Acetylene gas is immediately generated and its pressure forces the level of the water down in the inner cylinder, causing it to rise in the annular space between said cylinder and the case.

  14. It is now made commercially by the mutual decomposition of water and calcium carbide, the latter giving off, when brought in contact with the water, acetylene gas, which rises in bubbles.

  15. In acetylene gas apparatus a great variety of methods are employed for bringing the water and carbide into contact.

  16. Acetylene Gas is a combination of two parts carbon and two parts hydrogen.

  17. The simplicity of the method of generating acetylene gas from this substance by merely bringing it in contact with water has greatly stimulated invention in this field.

  18. Other details as to the carbide consumed in making acetylene gas may be briefly quoted.

  19. Nelson's bench is situated very conveniently under the largest of the hut windows, and had also an acetylene lamp, so that both in summer and winter he has all conveniences for his indoor work.

  20. He is allowed cocoa and sardines with bread and butter--the cocoa can be made over an acetylene Bunsen burner, part of Simpson's outfit.

  21. The cold is bringing some minor troubles with the clockwork instruments in the open and with the acetylene gas plant--no insuperable difficulties.

  22. The acetylene has suddenly failed, and I find myself at this moment writing by daylight for the first time.

  23. The discovery of acetylene gas is the point of departure for a long line of products of organic chemistry, that, with proper treatment, can be drawn from it.

  24. A compound is made of calcium and carbon, called calcium-carbide, which, in touch with water, produces the acetylene gas.

  25. And even his acetylene headlight had only to be attached, which task took but a short time.

  26. Perhaps some movement of the horses or else the bright light of the acetylene headlight falling on his face aroused the man, for he sat up as Frank was about passing.

  27. H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

  28. But now, steering again by compass, it was not long before I at last saw those four tiny points of white light below--the acetylene lamps over which old Theed was keeping guard.

  29. I had my acetylene lamp with me to furnish light for reading any questions that might be sent up.

  30. About four o'clock, though time had little meaning to us, because the only light we had was from the candles and acetylene lamps, I went (p.

  31. The windows were entirely darkened, but in the building was the bright light and the persistent smell of acetylene gas.

  32. We've got an acetylene headlight such as they use on motorcycles," Tom declared.

  33. Accordingly the boys secured automatics and the acetylene headlight.

  34. Thus, they had plenty of acetylene gas, and many ways of using this for power.

  35. The fuel was acetylene gas, Hanlon found to his dismay.

  36. The rays of the acetylene lamp lit up the way fairly well, and here and there they could see their former trail, although it was growing more indistinct every moment.

  37. Here, take a lantern," said Professor Jeffer, and brought forth an acetylene lamp, similar to those used on bicycles.

  38. Another portion of the power is to be used to produce carbide of calcium for the manufacture of acetylene gas.

  39. Now this material, when water is added to it, decomposes, and acetylene or C2H2 is formed, which is a gas of high illuminating value as the carbon separates and glows brightly after being heated to incandescence in the flame.

  40. The carbide has given out, so that we can't make any more acetylene for the searchlight, and the track's free for them now.

  41. He hoped that it would not be necessary to use it often, for the stock of calcium carbide was running low, and he had no other illuminant than acetylene gas and paraffin candles.

  42. To flange over the edges and then weld them with an acetylene torch would be a far more economical procedure, and would also insure a tight and permanent joint.

  43. The white slag disintegrates to a powder when exposed to the atmosphere and has a pronounced odor of acetylene when wet.

  44. While that dazzling glow from the acetylene searchlight shone in their faces, none of the boys could make out anything with certainty.

  45. Across the white path of illumination thrown forward by the powerful little acetylene searchlight, a shadowy, moving thing suddenly appeared.

  46. The following data on cutting is given by the Davis-Bournonville Company: Cubic Feet Cost of Thickness of Gas Inches Gases of Cutting Heating per Foot Oxygen Cut per per Foot Steel Oxygen Oxygen of Cut Acetylene Min.

  47. This property of oxygen is used in oxy-acetylene cutting of steel.

  48. Hydrogen was used for many years before acetylene was introduced in this field.

  49. When water and calcium carbide are brought together an action takes place which results in the formation of acetylene gas and slaked lime.

  50. Generators are built in such a way that it is impossible for the acetylene to escape from the gas holding compartment during the recharging process.

  51. Arc welding makes use of the flame produced by the voltaic arc in practically the same way that oxy-acetylene welding uses the flame from the gases.

  52. A water-feed generator is made up of the gas producing part and a holder for the acetylene after it is made.

  53. Acetylene gives a light which is nearest to sunlight of any artificial illuminant.

  54. An analysis of the gas coming from a typical generator is as follows: Per cent Acetylene .

  55. Because of the excess of acetylene always present there is no danger of oxidizing the metal being heated.

  56. The acetylene enters the head in an annular space surrounding the oxygen tube.

  57. The car paused a moment for the kindling of its huge acetylene lamps; then rushed onward, more rapidly than before.

  58. He knew exactly how it looked, waiting in the snow; two great acetylene lamps in front; delicate electric bulbs lighting the interior, one in each corner of the roof.

  59. David saw the flash of the acetylene lamps on his bedroom blind.

  60. The dark one darted across the road and barred the other's passage, while a warning acetylene lamp was waved in the air.

  61. For an instant he uncovered an acetylene hand-lantern, took a hasty glance at his own preparations, and laid it beside a Mauser pistol upon the seat alongside him.

  62. It was something to have an opportunity of testing the cape hood, and the acetylene lamps were, after all, only a reminder that everything does not always go absolutely smoothly even in the best-regulated motor-cars.

  63. At first we tried to proceed with oil lamps only; then we were driven to acetylene; but, with air none too clear at any time and wreaths of denser mist now and again, even the acetylene rays did not penetrate very far.

  64. It began to rain hard just after Royston, and went on raining, and we had trouble in lighting the acetylene lamps after Aylesbury.

  65. Still more scientific is a complicated apparatus with tubes in which oxygen and acetylene gas are used to melt through safes with a fierce heat--a quieter, less clumsy, and more effective method than the use of explosives.

  66. Slowly, slowly over the dazzling acetylene flares we floated.

  67. From mess to cabins, from cabins to the aerodrome with its dazzling acetylene flares, we moved uneasily.

  68. Each of these searchlights upturned against me now are many times more brilliant than the acetylene lamps of a car, and there are fourteen of them.

  69. He could not bear to have his great Bleriots dark, while our humbler acetylene illumined the way for His Mightiness.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acetylene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ammonia; gas; nitrogen; oxygen