The action consists of burning away a thin section of the metal by allowing a stream of oxygen to flow onto it while the gas is at high pressure and the metal at a white heat.
The work is first heated to a white heat by adjusting the torch for a welding flame.
Coke, whether brought to a white heat by the electric current, or by the oxyhydrogen jet, pours out invisible rays with augmented energy, as its light is increased.
This condition of things applies to all bodies capable of being raised to a white heat, either in the solid or the molten condition.
In the experiment just described we began with a platinum wire at an ordinary temperature, and gradually raised it to a white heat.
When we see a platinum wire raised gradually to a white heat, and emitting in succession all the colours of the spectrum, we are simply conscious of a series of changes in the condition of our own eyes.
At that time my brain felt as though pricked by a million needles at white heat.
It felt as if pricked by a million needles at white heat.
Flames need oxygen from the air and are unable to spread underwater; but a lava flow, which contains in itself the principle of its incandescence, can rise to a white heat, overpower the liquid element, and turn it into steam on contact.
It melts at a low red heat (810°), is volatilized at a white heat, and can be distilled.
It melts at about 775°, and distills when exposed to a white heat in a close vessel.
At a red heat, it oxidizes slowly and decomposes water; at a white heat it burns with a red flame.
They are not volatile when red hot, except the alkali ammonia, but they are volatile at a white heat.
The Squire was rubbing his face, the account having put it into a white heat.
The sentences are deliberate, but they appear to have been written by a man who was in a white heat of passion when he penned them.
He wrote the letter at white heat, but he is of a resolute and determined character.
He wrote it at white heat, strung to momentary madness by the ruin that confronted him.
She felt his anger go to a white heat, but the others seemed blissfully unaware of the fact.
His anger was suddenly at white heat; and his voice, which he strove to control, betrayed it.
Years before, when poor Sarah Austen had adorned the end of his table, Hilary Vane had raised his head after the pronouncement of grace to surprise a look in his wife's eyes which strangely threw him into a white heat of anger.
Most military musquets and low-priced guns are fashioned out of a long slip of sheet-iron folded together edge-wise round a skewer into a cylinder, are then lapped over at the seam, and welded at a white heat.
It is decomposed by calcination in contact with charcoal at a white heat, into sulphuret of baryta; from which all the baryta salts may be readily formed.
The oxide proper occurs native, and may be readily formed by exposing the metal to a red-white heat in a muffle, when it takes fire, burns with a faint blue flame, and sends off fumes which condense into a yellow pulverulent oxide.
Prepared in an impure condition as a white, very infusible, hard metal, by igniting the oxide with charcoal, at a white heat, in a lime crucible.
In cauterising with a heated iron, this should be at a white heat, as, at this temperature, it occasions less pain to the patient, from its causing an immediate death of the parts to which it is applied.
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent.
To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Defn: A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.
White heat, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit.
He then took a hot iron, which he had brought to a white heat in a forge, and thrust it into the half barrel of the infernal mixture, to show that it simply could not be exploded except with a very powerful exploder or detonator.
The rage of the commanding officer was at white heat, but it did no good.
On the firing of the first pistol, two iron pokers, heated to a white heat, were to be laid upon a table beside the duelists, which was to be immediately followed by the discharge of the second pistol.
On the other hand, with insufficient pressure the combustion is not energetic enough to raise the particles of carbon to a white heat; consequently, the illuminating power of the flame is feeble, or else the carbon escapes unconsumed as smoke.
In the latter case, the illuminating power developed is solely due to the hydrocarbons contained in the gas, which are decomposed by the heat of the flame, the separated carbon being raised to a white heat.
It has been stated that the luminosity of the flame is due to the particles of carbon, which are separated out of the hydrocarbons in the gas, being raised to a white heat.
Mrs. Champney laughed aloud--the same mocking laugh of a miserable old age that had raised Octavius Buzzby's anger to a white heat of rage.
Her anger was still at white heat--not a particle of color as yet tinged her cheeks--and the physical exertion necessary to overcome such an obstacle as the long tough stems she felt to be a relief.
His anger was roused towhite heat and he dared not trust himself to say more.
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