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Categories: Hydrogen technologies, Scottish inventions, Articles with short description, Stage lighting, Types of lamp
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limelight  calcium light  Calcium lamp  Drummon light  Drummond light
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A lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting WordNet 3.0
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A lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Limelight is a non-electric type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, and was the first solid-state lighting device. Wikipedia
Type of stage lighting used during the nineteenth century. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A very bright light obtained by directing an oxyhydrogen flame at a piece of quicklime (calcium oxide). OmegaWiki
A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime. Wiktionary
Type of stage lighting. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
lamp
stage lighting instrument
PART OF
theater light
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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limelight, calcium light
Wikipedia
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limelight
Wikidata
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limelight
Wiktionary
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limelight
OmegaWiki
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limelight
Wikipedia Redirections
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Calcium lamp, calcium light, Drummon light, Drummond light, koniaphostic light, Lime-light, lime light, Limelight apparatus, Limelighting, oxy-calcium light
Wikidata Alias
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calcium light, Drummond light

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