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111Bunsen burner — A gas lamp supplied with lateral openings admitting sufficient air so that the carbon is completely burned, thus giving a very hot but only slightly luminous flame. [RW Bunsen, 1811–1899] * * * Bun·sen burn·er bən(t) sən .bər nər n a gas burner… …
112on the front burner — ► considered very important and to be dealt with or given attention before other things: keep/put sth on the front burner »We need to put this project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible. Main Entry: ↑front …
113back burner — also backburner N SING: usu the N If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important. Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on… …
114hay burner — 1. n. a worthless racehorse; any old and worn out horse. □ Send that old hay burner to the glue factory. □ I went to a dude ranch, and they gave me an old hay burner to ride. 2. AND hay head n. a marijuana smoker. (Drugs.) □ Some …
115back burner — n. [from the idea of putting a pot on a back burner of a stove to keep its contents warm] a state of temporary suspension, low priority, etc.: usually in the phrase on the back burner, in or into such a state …
116argand burner — ˈärˌgan(d) , än(d) , gən(d) noun Usage: usually capitalized A Etymology: after Aimé Argand died 1803 Swiss physicist and inventor : a burner for an Argand lamp or a gas burner applying the principle of that lamp * * * /ahr gand, gahnd, geuhnd/ a… …
117Wels|bach burner — «WEHLZ bak, bahk; Germ VEHLS bahkh», a gas burner like a Bunsen burner, having an incombustible mantle which becomes incandescent and emits a brilliant light. ╂[< K. Auer von Welsbach, 1858 1929, an Austrian chemist, who invented it] …
118Bude burner — Bude burn er [See {Bude light}.] A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied. [1913 Webster] …
119Fish-tail burner — fishtail fishtail v. i. to have the rear end skid from side to side, out of control: said of automobiles or other vehicles. [PJC] {Fish tail burner}, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. {Fish tail… …
120Hydrocarbon burner — Hydrocarbon Hy dro*car bon, n. [Hydro , 2 + carbon.] (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. [1913 Webster] {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a… …
