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Definition of: Welsbach burner
A burner of the Bunsen type, having a cotton–gauze mantle impregnated with thoria and ceria, so arranged that upon ignition of a mixture of gases the mantle becomes incandescent. [after Baron Carl A. von Welsbach]
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