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Definition of Carbon arc

1. Noun. Has carbon electrodes.

Definition of Carbon arc

1. Noun. an arc struck between the tip of a carbon electrode and a piece of metal being welded ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbon Arc

Literary usage of Carbon arc

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1913)
"This requires that a flame carbon arc lamp be designed to secure more perfect regulation than the former types of lamps. Fig. 7 shows typical regulation ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"1901, 1042) indicate that, when equilibrium is established in the gas surrounding a carbon arc burning in hydrogen or hydrocarbon vapour, it contains ! ..."

3. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1908)
"EMISSON SPECTRUM OF THE carbon arc. The emission spectrum of carbon was ... It was found that the violet part of the carbon arc had several emission lines ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The physical phenomena of the electric arc are best examined by forming a carbon arc between two carbon rods of the above description, held in line in a ..."

5. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"The open carbon arc or short burning arc lamp. The enclosed carbon arc or ... Replacement of the enclosed alternating carbon arc by the magnetite arc lamp ..."

6. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"He thought that if in the unilateral zinc-carbon arc the metal pole were heated with an oxyhydrogen flame, the arc would no longer be unilateral. ..."

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