calcium light

American  

noun

1. a brilliant white light produced by heating lime to incandescence in an oxyhydrogen or other hot flame; limelight.

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calcium light British  

noun

1. another name for limelight

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Etymology

Origin of calcium light

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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calcium light

The scene he saw was the one he had put behind him, and in the calcium light of his mind, one figure stood out clearly from the rest.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff

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

As a dark scene in a theater is illumined at one single point by the calcium light, so the search rays concentrated themselves on a striking picture of distress at sea.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry

"Why, you wouldn't be brilliant in a calcium light."

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar

I looked around the corner and could see he just had on his shirt and pants, and his suspenders were hanging down, and his bald head shone like a calcium light just before it explodes.

From Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by Smith, Gean