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Nernst lamp
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English
Etymology
Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at Goettingen University.
Noun
A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.
en 2006 Thomas Pynchon Against the Day 127 Vintage 2007 Chick Counterfly had already brought out of its storage locker a peculiar-looking optical contraption of prisms, lenses, Nernst lamps, and adjustment screws, into an appropriate receptacle of which he now carefully placed the pearl.
Translations
type of incandescent lamp
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