Glossary of Terms
Aluminum: a silver-white metallic element, light in weight, ductile, malleable, and not readily corroded or tarnished, occurring combined in nature in igneous rock, shale, clay, and most soil
Boric oxide: a colorless crystalline compound, B2O3, used in metallurgy and chemical analysis
Borosilicate glass : a glass containing 5 percent or more of B2O3, highly resistant to heat and shock, used esp. in making cookware and chemical glassware
Bulb: the glass housing, in which a partial vacuum has been established, that contains the filament of an incandescent electric lamp
Burner: that part of a gas fixture, lamp, etc., from which flame issues or in which it is produced
Candlepower: a measure of luminous intensity expressed in candles
Emit: to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge
Gas: a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid
Incandescent: glowing or white with heat; intensely bright; brilliant
Ignite: to set on fire; kindle
Kerosene: a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc
Lamplight: the light thrown by a lamp
Lantern: a transparent or translucent, usually portable, case for enclosing a light and protecting it from the wind, rain, etc
Manganese: a hard, brittle, grayish-white, metallic element, an oxide of which, MnO2 (manganese dioxide), is a valuable oxidizing agent
Metallurgy: the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties
Molten: liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted
Paraffin: a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum
Rayon: a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets
Titanium: a dark-gray or silvery, lustrous, very hard, light, corrosion-resistant, metallic element, occurring combined in various minerals
Ventilator: a contrivance or opening for replacing foul or stagnant air with fresh air
Volatile: evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor
Yttrium: a rare trivalent metallic element, found in gadolinite and other minerals
Zirconium: a metallic element found combined in zircon, baddeleyite, etc., resembling titanium chemically