gas-flame

And two, there was something up ahead, in a square between two alleys, something that looked like a shower of rising sparks—except that they were blue, a dark gas-flame blue.

Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

And two, there was something up ahead, in a square between two alleys, something that looked like a shower of rising sparks—except that they were blue, a dark gas-flame blue.

City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009

The gas-flame behind the cheaply stained shade shuddered like a rheumy, winking eye.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

The gas-flame behind the cheaply stained shade shuddered like a rheumy, winking eye.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

Discreet gas-flame lanterns mounted on low posts had come on automatically at dusk, giving soft illumination to the expanse of irrigated lawn, the surrounding gardens, and the driveways that led to the other buildings.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

On the trolley were two dozen cups and saucers, metal filters, some spoons, an earthenware pot with a lid, a gas bottle and a huge stainless steel drum inside which the clear blue gas-flame could be glimpsed.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

But during 1902 Javal demonstrated that on heating in a gas-flame one arm of a twin, non-injector burner which had been and still was behaving quite satisfactorily with highly purified acetylene, growths were formed at the jet of that arm almost instantaneously.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

It is very easy to see what is meant by the rule if we will take an ordinary negative, such as a landscape with clear sky, and hold it first six inches from a gas-flame and then six feet.

Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements John A. Tennant

A small gas-flame will be much better than a hot iron, and you may easily use it, if you have glass tubing, rubber tubing, etc., in your shop.

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity

As is well known, the mantle is composed of the oxides of certain "rare earths" which owe their practical value to the fact that they are non-volatile at the temperature of the gas-flame.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield