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Definition of Candescence
1. n. See Incandescence.
Definition of Candescence
1. Noun. incandescence ¹
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Definition of Candescence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Candescence
Literary usage of Candescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thick platinum wires are melted before it like wax in a candle flame ; and earths,
such as lime, magnesia, or zirconia, are raised to intense iD candescence ..."
2. Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied for the Use of by Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson (1886)
"... and the wire is raised to dull ' candescence by the passage of a current, the
incandescence is more w* when the air has been pumped out of the tube, ..."
3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1867)
"... Huggins as to its being a world in combustion or in candescence. This star
has been well known for years as one of the 9^ magnitude; and after its late ..."
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