The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oxyhydrogen \Ox`y*hy"dro*gen\, a. [Oxy (a) + hydrogen.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen at over 5000[deg] F.
Oxyhydrogen blowpipe. (Chem.) See Blowpipe.
Oxyhydrogen microscope, a form of microscope arranged so as to use the light produced by burning lime or limestone under a current of oxyhydrogen gas.
Wiktionary
a. of, or using a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen n. (context chemistry English) A potentially explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
Wikipedia
Oxyhydrogen is a mixture of hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) gases. This gaseous mixture is used for torches to process refractory materials and was the first gaseous mixture used for welding. Theoretically, a ratio of 2:1 hydrogen:oxygen is enough to achieve maximum efficiency; in practice a ratio 4:1 or 5:1 is needed to avoid an oxidizing flame.
This mixture may also be referred to as (Scandinavian and German Knallgas: "bang-gas"), although some authors define knallgas to be a generic term for the mixture of fuel with the precise amount of oxygen required for complete combustion, thus 2:1 oxyhydrogen would be called "hydrogen-knallgas".
Brown's gas and HHO are fringe science terms for a 2:1 mixture of oxyhydrogen obtained under certain special conditions; its proponents claim that it has special properties.
Usage examples of "oxyhydrogen".
I dreaming or are those M-1A semiautomatic miniaturized oxyhydrogen plasma shooters?
These had presumably been used before to create by means of the jets one vast oxyhydrogen flame to give the intensest heat known, a heat computed by scientists at the enormous temperature of 2,400 deg.
He towed the drill into place beside his mark and welded the bedplate to the iron, and set the oxyhydrogen head to cut a forty-centimeter core.
The tantalum points could scarcely cut the surface of hardened steel, and the oxyhydrogen flame burned in vain against the layers of heat-proof alloy.
It takes an oxyhydrogen blowpipe and a coal gas flame temperature of two thousand degrees.
These flowed into separate compartments, and then went to a mixing chamber, where the oxyhydrogen was piped to the torch.
He towed the drill into place beside his mark and welded the bedplate to the iron, and set the oxyhydrogen head to cut a forty-centimeter core.
Being a permanent installation, the circus had some features and refinements that no traveling establishment could imitate—a very good lighting system, for one thing, real oxyhydrogen limelights, and overhead as well as pista-level spotlights.
He seized up the oxyhydrogen torch, lit it to flaring life and dived to the attack toward the Garnishee who were crowding into the cabin.
Like tissue paper in the flame of an oxyhydrogen torch, the dozen ships dissolved into whitehot gas.