anthracite |
a hard, shiny coal that burns with little flame or smoke. |
Argand burner |
an oil or gas burner having a metal tube inside a cylindrical wick, through which air is conducted directly to the flame. |
bituminous coal |
a mineral coal that yields pitch and tar and has a yellow smoky flame when it burns; soft coal. |
blaze1 |
a bright flame or light. [1/4 definitions] |
blowpipe |
a metal tube through which air or gas is forced in a controlled flow into a flame to concentrate and intensify its heat. [1/3 definitions] |
blowtorch |
a small device that makes a very hot, small flame for melting or cutting metal. |
Bunsen burner |
a burner that has holes at the bottom where air enters, mixes with gas, and makes a hot blue flame. Bunsen burners are used in laboratory experiments. |
burn |
to injure or damage by excessive exposure to heat, as from flame or sunlight. [1/14 definitions] |
burner |
the part of a furnace or stove that gives off heat or flame. |
chimney |
a glass tube that surrounds the flame of a lamp and serves to ventilate and protect the flame. [1/2 definitions] |
cinder |
a small piece of partly burned wood or coal that can continue to burn but without a flame. |
douse1 |
to turn off or extinguish (a light or flame). [1/4 definitions] |
extinguish |
to put out (a fire, flame, or light). [1/4 definitions] |
flame |
the mixture of burning gas and vapor that rises from an object that is on fire. Flame is seen as brightly colored, flickering light. [1/4 definitions] |
flaming |
like a flame in color or brilliance. [1/4 definitions] |
flaring |
of a flame, increasing suddenly and briefly in intensity. [1/2 definitions] |
gas jet |
a flame of burning gas from such a fitting. [1/2 definitions] |
gas mantle |
an incombustible meshwork hood for a gas jet or kerosene wick that gives off a brilliant incandescent light when a flame is lit within it. |
lambent |
flickering or playing lightly over a surface, as light or flame. [1/3 definitions] |
magnesium |
a highly reactive chemical element of the alkaline-earth group that has twelve protons in each nucleus and that occurs naturally only in compounds, but that can be isolated as a divalent ion essential in plant and animal nutrition, or as alight, ductile, silver-white solid that bursts into a bright flame when heated above room temperature, used for flares, fireworks, and the like. (symbol: Mg) |
napalm |
a highly flammable jelly containing aluminum soaps and gasoline, used in flame throwers and fire bombs. [1/2 definitions] |