gas mantle in a sentence

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1. Cannel gas was widely used for domestic lighting throughout the 19th century before the invention of the incandescent gas mantle by Carl Auer von Welsbach in the 1880s.
2. Thorium was once commonly used as the light source in gas mantles and as an alloying material, but these applications have declined due to concerns about its radioactivity.
3. Other hydrocarbon fuels such as white gasoline, propane, and natural gas are often burned in a lamp with a gas mantle which greatly increases the amount of light.
4. As a result, owning and handling small amounts of thorium, such as those in a gas mantle, is considered safe, although usage of such items may pose some risks.
5. The modern gas mantle was one of the many inventions of Carl Auer von Welsbach, a chemist who studied rare earth elements in the 1880s and who had been Robert Bunsen's student.
6. One potential cause for concern is that particles from thorium gas mantles " fall out " over time and get into the air, where they may be ingested in food or drink.
7. In June 2001 the NUREG published a study about the " Systematic Radiological Assessment of Exemptions for Source and Byproduct Materials " stating that radioactive gas mantles are explicitly legal in the US.
8. Following the introduction of the gas mantle, cannel coal lost favour as a manufactured gas feedstock as the gas mantle could produce large quantities of light without regard for the flame luminosity of the gas burnt.
9. Following the introduction of the gas mantle, cannel coal lost favour as a manufactured gas feedstock as the gas mantle could produce large quantities of light without regard for the flame luminosity of the gas burnt.
10. Efficient gas mantles and electric lighting were eroding the illuminating oil market beginning in the 1880s; however a previously low value byproduct of refining was gasoline, which more than offset the role of kerosene in the early 20th century.