carbon arc
an electric arc between two carbon electrodes, used mainly for lighting, as in an arc light for a motion-picture projector, or for intense heating, as in the cutting and welding of metals.
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We utilize a carbon arc lamp, which has considerable ultraviolet light in it.
Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyGreat improvements have also been made in inclined carbon arc lamps.
Wastes removed would be destroyed by passage through a carbon arc after innumerable previous sterilizing processes.
The Hate Disease | William Fitzgerald JenkinsThe light, once used for night purse seine fishing, was powered by a carbon arc.
Smugglers' Reef | John BlaineThe luminous output of such lamps is much greater than that of an ordinary carbon arc using the same amount of electrical energy.
Artificial Light | M. Luckiesh
British Dictionary definitions for carbon arc
an electric arc produced between two carbon electrodes, formerly used as a light source
(as modifier): carbon-arc light
an electric arc produced between a carbon electrode and material to be welded
(as modifier): carbon-arc welding
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