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Example sentences for "electric spark"

  • It is, the production of the electric spark before any contact of metals is made, and by the exertion of pure and unmixed chemical forces.

  • The conditions requisite for the production of an electric spark in its simplest form are well-known.

  • By causing compressed acetylene to dissociate under the influence of an electric spark, Mixter measured its heat of formation as -53.

  • An electric spark is then passed, and the gas, standing at its limit of safety, immediately dissociates, yielding a quantitative amount of hydrogen and free carbon.

  • In this case the mixture was fired by electric spark.

  • By decomposing ammonia by the action of an electric spark it is easy to prove that it contains one volume of nitrogen to three volumes of hydrogen.

  • This imperfection has given rise to several other forms, in which an electric spark is made to pass before the orifice from which the hydrogen escapes.

  • Electricity) Defn: A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed.

  • Defn: A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.

  • Here, then, is another great advantage of the Diesel engine over the ordinary gasoline engine: it does not need an electric spark or any other kind of flame to fire it.

  • S is a gap between the ends of one coil, across which an electric spark is produced whenever the current from the batteries B flowing through the coil C is broken by an arrangement at D.

  • An electric spark, in the case of wireless telegraphy, produces magnetic and electric lines of force in space, these reach out and embrace the circuit containing the coherer, and produce in turn minute sparks.

  • An electric spark is perhaps the most interesting phenomenon in electricity.

  • This action is doubtless of the nature of an electric spark.

  • Third, the compression charge is ignited, preferably by an electric spark, when the piston moves outward by virtue of a pressure initially extreme.

  • The waves from an electric spark, however, affect the filings so that they allow the current to flow.

  • But the snapping of an electric spark is heard in one of the cabins.

  • Franklin, in his experiment of magnetizing a steel needle by passing an electric spark through it, could not tell before the spark was passed through the needle which end would be the north pole.

  • All at once the aerial skiff was touched by an electric spark, caught fire, and began to descend, slowly at first, then swiftly.


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