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Meaning of Nernst lamp | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.

Examples

“Chick Counterfly had already brought out of its storage locker a peculiar-looking optical contraption of prisms, lenses, Nernst lamps, and adjustment screws, into an appropriate receptacle of which he now carefully placed the pearl.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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