 | 1908 - 604 pages
...five times more heat per cubic foot than hydrogen, and nearly doubles it in intensity, a inarvelously powerful flame is condensed into very small volume. Compared to the oxy-hydrogen flame, it is like a finely-pointed tool to a blunt instrument. With such a tool, having heating power from two to three... | |
 | Victor Wilfred Pagé - 1920 - 344 pages
...than double the hottest solid fuel heat known and approximately the temperature of the electric arc. As acetylene produces about five times more heat per...volume. Compared to the oxy-hydrogen flame, it is like comparing a finely pointed tool to a blunt instrument. With such a flame having heating power from... | |
 | 1908 - 512 pages
...temperature, full control and facility of application are necessary requisites for great efficiency. The highest temperature of the best solid fuel furnaces...volume. Compared to the oxy-hydrogen flame, it is like a finely-pointed tool to a blunt instrument. With such a tool, having heating power from two to three... | |
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The highest temperature of the best solid fuel furnaces is about 3,000 F. The oxy-hydrogen, which was the hottest of the gas flames, is something less than 4,000 F. The oxy-acetylene flame jumps this temperature more than 2,000 F. to about 6,300 F., being... 