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  2. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    A sole, token gas lamp is located at N. Holliday Street and E. Baltimore Street as a monument to the first gas lamp in America, erected at that location. However, gas lighting of streets has not disappeared completely from some cities, and the few municipalities that retained gas lighting now find that it provides a pleasing nostalgic effect.

  3. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    In Guild Wars 2, Orichalcum appears as an amber-colored metal used in crafting various things. In Shadowrun, orichalcum is a magical alloy of gold, silver, mercury, and copper. Also named "Orichalcon" in some games. Orichalcum is depicted as a pink metal in Terraria and is used to make

  4. Carbide lamp - Wikipedia

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    A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C 2 H 2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC 2) with water (H 2 O). [1] Acetylene gas lamps were used to illuminate buildings, as lighthouse beacons, and as headlights on motor-cars and bicycles. Portable acetylene gas lamps, worn on ...

  5. Terraria - Wikipedia

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    Terraria is a 2D sandbox game with gameplay that revolves around exploration, building, crafting, combat, survival, and mining, playable in both single-player and multiplayer modes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The game has a 2D sprite tile-based graphical style reminiscent of the 16-bit sprites found on the Super NES . [ 4 ]

  6. Category:Types of lamp - Wikipedia

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    This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 3-way lamp; A. A-series light bulb; Ancient Roman oil lamp; Anglepoise lamp; Arc lamp; Arco (lamp) Argon flash; Aroma ...

  7. Category:Gas discharge lamps - Wikipedia

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  8. Mercury-vapor lamp - Wikipedia

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    A 175-watt mercury-vapor light approximately 15 seconds after starting.A closeup of a 175-W mercury-vapor lamp.The small diagonal cylinder at the bottom of the arc tube is a resistor which supplies current to the starter electrode.

  9. Gas-discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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    Ruhmkorff lamps were an early form of portable electric lamp, named after Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff and first used in the 1860s. The lamp consisted of a Geissler tube that was excited by a battery-powered Ruhmkorff induction coil; an early transformer capable of converting DC currents of low voltage into rapid high-voltage pulses.