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Found 3 hits - Term: lime light, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lime light \lime" light`\, limelight \lime"light`\
   an intense light produced by heating lime. see calcium
   light under calcium.
   1913 webster
see also:
calcium light calcium 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
drummond light \drum"mond light`\ from thomas drummond, a
   british naval officer.
   a very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas,
   one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of
   ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas
   through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; --
   called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.
   1913 webster

   note: the name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat,
         invented by drummond, for rendering visible a distant
         point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it
         a beam of light from the sun.
         1913 webster
see also:
oxycalcium light lime light 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
calcium \cal"cium\ ka^l"si^u^m, n. nl., from l. calx,
   calcis, lime; cf f. calcium. see calx. chem.
   an elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen
   forms lime. it is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and
   malleable. it is a member of the alkaline earth group of
   elements. atomic weight 40. symbol ca.
   1913 webster

   note: calcium is widely and abundantly disseminated, as in
         its compounds calcium carbonate or limestone, calcium
         sulphate or gypsum, calcium fluoride or fluor spar,
         calcium phosphate or apatite.
         1913 webster

   calcium light, an intense light produced by the
      incandescence of a stick or ball of lime in the flame of a
      combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or of oxygen and
      coal gas; -- called also drummond light and lime
      light.
      1913 webster +pjc
see also:
calx calcium light drummond light lime light 

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