Device for generating bright light when heated by a flame
A Coleman white gas lantern mantle glowing at full brightness
An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating incandescent bright white light when heated by a flame. The name refers to its original heat source in gas lights which illuminated the streets of Europe and North America in the late 19th century. Mantle refers to the way it hangs like a cloak above the flame. Gas mantles were also used in portable camping lanterns, pressure lanterns and some oil lamps.[1]
Gas mantles are usually sold as a fabric bag which, because of impregnation with metal nitrates, burns away to leave a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use; these metal oxides produce light from the heat of the flame whenever used. Thorium dioxide was commonly a major component; being radioactive, it has led to concerns about the safety of those involved in manufacturing mantles. Normal use, however, poses minimal health risk.[citation needed]
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of illuminating gas to increase brightness, or indirectly with other components such as the gasmantle or the limelight, with the gas primarily functioning...
development of the ferrocerium "flints" used in modern lighters, the gasmantle that brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century,...
hot-blast, and cold-blast variants. Pressurized kerosene lamps use a gasmantle; these are known as Petromax, Tilley lamps, or Coleman lamps, among other...
instrumentation, used in some broadcast vacuum tubes, and as the light source in gasmantles, but these uses have become marginal. It has been suggested as a replacement...
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Flash-lamp – Electrically ignited photographic light source Gas lighting – Type of artificial light Gasmantle – Device for generating bright light when heated by...
illuminating gas. Blue gas burns with a blue flame and does not produce light except when used with a Welsbach gasmantle. Lowe's Water Gas: Water gas with a...
action. The sources of volcanic gases on Earth include: primordial and recycled constituents from the Earth's mantle, assimilated constituents from the...
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incandescent gasmantle by Carl Auer von Welsbach in the 1880s. Following the introduction of the gasmantle, cannel coal lost favour as a manufactured gas feedstock...
A Clamond basket is a kind of gasmantle, invented in the 1880s by the Parisian Charles Clamond, and which he later patented in the United States. It was...
praseodymium, and co-discoverer of lutetium. He was also the inventor of the gasmantle (using thorium) and of the rare-earth industry. After extracting thorium...
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standard X-ray contrast agents. Another major use in the past was in gasmantle of lanterns developed by Carl Auer von Welsbach in 1890, which are composed...
the use of a gasmantle mounted above the wick on a kerosene lamp. Looking like a delicate woven bag above the woven cotton wick, the mantle is a residue...
of starting while decreasing burn-off. The first use of cerium was in gasmantles, invented by Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach. In 1885, he had...
the surface of an opaque material to form an integrating sphere. Early gasmantle designs for lighting, such as the Clamond basket, consisted mainly of...
smashed the new lanterns. Gas lighting was invented in the 1800s. A gasmantle was over ten times brighter than an oil lamp. Gas lighting was associated...
contains a burning light source: a candle, liquid oil with a wick, or gas with a mantle. The ancient Chinese sometimes captured fireflies in transparent or...
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