Nernst lamp

noun

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

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Meanings

nounNernst lamp (plural Nernst lamps)

plural Nernst lamps

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

    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.

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 127

Origin

Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at Goettingen University.

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