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Welsbach burner in American English
a gas burner with a gauze mantle impregnated with thorium oxide and cerium oxide: when lighted, the gauze gives off an incandescent, greenish light
noun: a brand of gaslight consisting essentially of a Bunsen burner on which an incombustible mantle (Welsbach mantle) composed of thoria and some ceria becomes brilliantly incandescent when exposed to flame

Welsbach burner in British English
noun: a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame

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