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I VENTURE to direct your attention to a simple device which I have found very useful for increasing the light from a demonstrating lantern. It is usual, on account of their long life, to use so-called artificial lime cylinders, even though they give somewhat less light than pure lime ones. An ordinary Welsbach gas-mantle happens to fit all these cylinders, and should be slipped on before the jet is lighted. The increase in brightness of the light due to this addition is astonishing. The mantle is only slightly damaged by the jet, and by turning occasionally so that the flame impinges upon a fresh place, the intense illumination may be maintained for two hours or so.
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PHILLIPS, C. Lime Light. Nature 79, 38 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079038c0
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