arc light
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When hydrogen is squirted through a tungsten arc light, hydrogen molecules explode into hydrogen atoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of going through a radio bulb, they go through an arc light whose brilliancies they modify according to the varying transparencies of the sending film.
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Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland.
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The cylinders were designed so that every passing air particle swirled within 3 in. of a germ-killing arc light.
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In a garbage can under an arc light I found a clean corrugated paper carton and packed my city clothes.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
