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Drummond Light

Webster's Dictionary

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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Drummond Light'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/drummond-light.html. 1828.