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UK
/ˌɒksɪɐsˈɛtɪlˌiːn/
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NOUN
- a mixture of oxygen and acetylene; used to create high temperatures for cutting or welding metals
How To Use oxyacetylene In A Sentence
- Most 3rd world skilled builders/labourers have the most primitive and basic hand tools only. and arc/tig/mig or oxyacetylene would be beyond their purchasing power. PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja | Inhabitat
- We use the heat produced by the burning of acetylene in the flame of the oxyacetylene torch to make welds.
- For a uniform ‘flame finish,’ granite is first polished normally, then spalled with a large oxyacetylene burner.
- The success and widespread use of this method in 20th-century sculpture has depended on the invention around 1900 of fusion welding using oxyacetylene welding equipment.
- The oxyfuel gas welding process uses a flux and either an oxyacetylene or oxyhydrogen gas flame.
- We use the heat produced by the burning of acetylene in the flame of the oxyacetylene torch to make welds.
- Of the many methods for gas brazing other metals, only the oxyacetylene gas has been found effective to date with titanium in that the gas employed does not embrittle the material.
- The emergency situation was sparked after a fire broke out in a shed in the back garden of a Portchester house where there was a 4ft cylinder containing oxyacetylene gas.
- The oxyacetylene torch, for example, produces heat by burning acetylene gas in pure oxygen.
- For a uniform ‘flame finish,’ granite is first polished normally, then spalled with a large oxyacetylene burner.