gas jet

Example Sentences

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The most important part of this grill-roasting process is setting up your fire so that the roast is receiving the lovely warmth from the heat source — coals or gas jets — without being directly over them.

From Washington Post

“If you unscrew the tube and light the gas jet, you get a tall, sooty orange flame,” Mueller says.

From Scientific American

In the late 19th century, gas jets and then electric lights were tried as replacements for candles.

From Washington Times

On August 21st, scientists conducting an overflight of the Lower East Rift Zone discovered gas jets throwing glassy, light-gray lava from within the cone.

From Scientific American

It was supposed to read “McClellan, Our Only Hope,” but the gas jets broke and the thing just flickered and died, hopelessly.

From The New Yorker