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Gas-burner   Listen
noun
Gas-burner  n.  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gas-burner" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice, scarcely masking his nervous irritation, and tiptoed along the corridor towards her and up the two steps past the gas-burner. Fan followed, wagging her ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

... perseverance in solving a difficult problem, will never cause us to forget the prior claims of Herr Frederick Siemens, of Dresden, to the palm of the discoverer. Mr. Grimston may or may not be the happy inventor of the best gas-burner of the day; but there is the consolation of knowing that in the same field in which he will find his recompense there is room for any number and variety of useful improvements of a like character and object.—Journal ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various

... They are bent in rings, the junctions in a series making a zig-zag round the circle. The rings are built one over the other in a cylinder of couples, and the inner junctions are heated by a Bunsen gas-burner in the hollow core of the battery. A gas- pipe seen in front leads to the burner, and the wires WW connected to the extreme bars or poles are the ...
— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro



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