gas mantle in a sentence

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1. The gas mantle remained an important part of street lighting until the widespread introduction of electric lighting in the early 1900s.
2. Similarly, thorium gas mantles are very slightly radioactive when new, but become far more radioactive after only a few months of storage.
3. In 1923, the light was converted to a incandescent gas mantle fueled by vapourised kerosene, with an intensity of 100, 000 cd.
4. Like the Welsbach / General Gas Mantle site, the Martin Aaron, Inc . site was placed on the National Priorities list in 1999.
5. A notable exception, discovered in the early 19th century, is the use of a gas mantle mounted above the wick on a kerosene lamp.
6. In 1925, the light was upgraded to a 35mm incandescent gas mantle fueled by pressurised kerosene, with an intensity of 225, 000 cd, visible for.
7. Experiments also began in Alabama's state prison farm to grow Ramie, a tough, stiff fibre used in gas mantles which was no longer available from Asia.
8. Since it was declared a Superfund site, the EPA has removed over 350, 000 tons of contaminated materials from the Welsbach / General Gas Mantle site.
9. This marked the first widespread use of floodlighting at a fair, and also the first use of high-pressure gas mantle lamps and of high-wattage tungsten filament lamps.
10. A 1956 test carried out at Motor Industry Research Association ( MIRA ) proving grounds near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, saw of testing produce just one broken gas mantle.