The oxyacetylene flame is concentrated upon a small pellet of ceria, which provides a brilliant source of small dimensions.
Oxyacetylene equipment has found application, owing to its portability.
Hotter even than oxyhydrogen is the oxyacetylene flame, which at its hottest point reaches nearly 3500 deg.
But if the heat be applied by the oxyacetylene flame that will not happen.
Wrought iron, cast-iron, steel in all its forms, all can be melted by the oxyacetylene flame, almost as easily as snow by a hot iron.
But there is no hole," objected Kennedy, "not a trace of the use of thermit to burn the way in or of the oxyacetylene blowpipe to cut a piece out.
He might have used thermit or an oxyacetylene blowpipe for all I would care.
It was none of the old-time gambling places, like Danfield's, with its steel door which Craig had once cut through with an oxyacetylene blowpipe in order to rescue a young spendthrift from himself.
He looked vaguely about for something that Thornton might smoke, then seated himself on a cluttered bench holding a number of retorts, beside which flamed an oxyacetylene blowpipe.
