calcium light
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of calcium light
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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His stories are full of adventure and dramatic situations, and his melodrama is of the lurid kind on which the calcium light is thrown.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
If we interpose the intense calcium light or an electric arc light between the eye and the sun, these artificial sources will look like black spots on the disk.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
Far better bring them near and turn on the calcium light.
From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Only practice torpedoes send up a calcium light when their compressed air has given out.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.
The Moon, in fact, is in German novels what the calcium light is in American melodrama.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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