Noun:

ஒளியூட்டும் பொருள்,

illuminant's Usage Examples:

's engine works at Soho, near Birmingham, in 1802, undoubtedly demonstrated the practical possibility of making the gas on a large scale, and burning it in such a way as to make coal-gas the most important of the artificial illuminants.

The general illuminant is electricity, and both electrical and gas services are owned by the municipality.

This is defined to be the set of all sensor responses obtained by viewing all physically realizable surface reflectances under a canonical illuminant.

The Boulder district developed very rapidly after 1902; its product is a high-grade illuminant with paraffin base.

Petroleum has been used to some extent both as a fuel and as an illuminant.

From this input data we want to recover an estimate of the unknown illuminant.

The gas which is obtained by the destructive distillation of coal, and which we employ as our chief illuminant, is not a definite com pound, but a mechanical mixture of several gases, some Gaseous .

When acetylene was first introduced as a commercial illuminant in England, very small union jet nipples were utilized for its consumption, but after burning for a short time these nipples began to carbonize, the flame being distorted, and then smoking occurred with the formation of a heavy deposit of soot.

The various improvements in electric illuminants, such as the Nernst oxide lamp, the tantalum and osmium incandescent lamps, and improved forms of arc lamp, enclosed, inverted and flame arcs, are described under Lighting: Electric.

Synonyms:

fuel,

Antonyms:

None