Nernst lamp

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Nernst lamp (plural Nernst lamps)

  1. A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 127:
      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.

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