Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nernst lamp

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: nern-st lamp
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Nernst lamps (plural)

Questions

What does nernst lamp mean?: A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.
Where does nernst lamp come from?: Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at Goettingen University.

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