Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Blue with heat: said of a body at so high a temperature that the more refrangible rays, that is, the blue and violet, preponderate in its total radiation, so that the light it emits appears blue.

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Examples

  • All I know is that I was ecstatically, painfully in love with him, waiting for him to slip away, leaving me with my palms singed from clutching a blue-hot star.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • All I know is that I was ecstatically, painfully in love with him, waiting for him to slip away, leaving me with my palms singed from clutching a blue-hot star.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • It's as dangerous to look the Joker in the eyes as it is to train a telescope on the sun, they say, but Batman has faced down this blue-hot lunacy before.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Fred Perry 2007

  • It's as dangerous to look the Joker in the eyes as it is to train a telescope on the sun, they say, but Batman has faced down this blue-hot lunacy before.

    Comic musings for 2/14 Fred Perry 2007

  • Geyser-like volcanoes would be erupting, sending their blue-hot plumes several miles into space.

    Exploring Volcanism in our Solar System: A complete survey of all geologically active bodies 2007

  • But the visible wavelegths are important because they are where most stars have their blackbody peak (stars surfaces are red-hot, white-hot, even blue-hot) and given that atoms in stellar atmospheres and interstellar space are often in excited states, the emission and aborption spectra show many interesting features in the visible range. (c.f. the discovery of helium)

    Jefferys on "The Privileged Planet" - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Another blue-hot streak of lightning flashed to the tree tops on the hills beyond the river.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Her eyes burned like blue-hot coals in pits of ash.

    Typhoon Season Douglass, Keith 2000

  • It had taken him a long, bemused moment to draw himself back from the unhappy world of Brother Jerome's frenzied prayers, and realize that the door really had opened and let her in, that she was actually standing there before him, urgent, tangible, her black hair shaken loose round her shoulders, and her eyes like blue-hot steady flames in the translucent oval of her face.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • Lancer rumbled and forked a pure, blue-hot plasma arc, and pulled away from the gravitational lens that was its native star, leaving the colossal telescope behind.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

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