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n. 1 a magnesium lamp 2 the intense light from such a lamp
Usage examples of "magnesium light".
It was simply a magnesium light, which had been fired by the mechanism within the box and carried up to the kite.
Suddenly the Kirov was inside a box of blue-white magnesium light.
Outside, the smoke enveloped everything all around but the square of magnesium light, which now turned green.
There was no flaring burst of magnesium light to blind and no harsh amplified voice warning that they would be blasted dead.
Starshells burst over the wog entrenchments, throwing a flickering blue-white magnesium light.
A violent chem storm raged during the night and some chunks of nuke debris came shafting from deep space, the detritus of the abortive Star Wars project of the 1980s that had finally circled back to its home planet, burning up in streaks of brilliant magnesium light.
It flared into life at once, a dazzling blue-white magnesium light so blinding that I had to clap my free hand over my eyes.
The white magnesium light drew the dead face from the shadows and projected it against the night.
The shell popped thousands of meters in the air, casting harsh magnesium light across Fortress Auerstadt.
I filled up the trough of the lamp with blitzlichtpulver, lifted the camera and flooded the well with magnesium light.