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  • up wick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wick most often refers to: Capillary action ("wicking") Candle wick, the cord used in a candle or oil lamp...
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    A candle wick or lamp wick is usually made of braided cotton that holds the flame of a candle or oil lamp. A candle wick works by capillary action, conveying...
    7 KB (824 words) - 23:06, 19 April 2024
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    container for the oil is required. A textile wick drops down into the oil, and is lit at the end, burning the oil as it is drawn up the wick. Oil lamps are a...
    32 KB (4,198 words) - 21:12, 25 May 2024
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    north of Scotland. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay. "Wick Locality" had a population of 6,954 at the time of...
    59 KB (6,604 words) - 23:28, 26 May 2024
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    Candle (section Wick)
    A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance...
    43 KB (5,285 words) - 15:46, 4 June 2024
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    Kerosene lamp (category Oil lamp)
    kerosene lamp: flat-wick, central-draft (tubular round wick), and mantle lamp. Kerosene lanterns meant for portable use have a flat wick and are made in dead-flame...
    22 KB (2,685 words) - 02:04, 16 March 2024
  • catty socialite wife, Carla; Scott Michael Foster as his villainous son Wick; and Miranda Rae Mayo as his illegitimate biracial daughter Lacey who has...
    46 KB (2,291 words) - 21:47, 25 February 2024
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    Argand lamp (category Oil lamp)
    complete combustion of the candle wick and oil than in other lamps required much less frequent trimming of the wick. In France, the lamp is called "Quinquet"...
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    lubricated bronze bearings, and some had small lubrication tanks that would wick oil from soaked lamb's wool into the bearings to help them run smoothly. Like...
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    goldsmiths and silversmiths. They began literally as a "blown lamp", a wick oil lamp with a mouth-blown tube alongside the flame. This type of lamp, with...
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    ancient grave Ajloun Castle Museum: ancient multi-wick oil lamp Ajloun Castle Museum: Christian oil lamp, Byzantine period Ajloun Castle Museum: Roman...
    10 KB (1,084 words) - 08:08, 23 May 2024
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    Southern Ocean, sealing his makeshift wood and canvas deck with lamp wick, oil paint and seal blood. After surviving a series of dangers, including a...
    34 KB (4,189 words) - 22:19, 25 May 2024
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    Wick John O' Groats Airport (IATA: WIC, ICAO: EGPC) (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Inbhir Ùige Taigh Iain Ghròt) is located one nautical mile (two kilometres)...
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    fish oil or fat trimmings and had wicks of twisted cloth. The Betty lamp differs from earlier oil/grease lamps in that it uses an internal wick holder...
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  • Kerosene (redirect from Stove oil)
    Kingdom, two grades of heating oil are defined. BS 2869 Class C1 is the lightest grade used for lanterns, camping stoves, and wick heaters, and mixed with petrol...
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    Hackney Wick is a neighbourhood in North East London, England. The area forms the south-eastern part of the district of Hackney, and also of the wider...
    33 KB (3,686 words) - 12:02, 13 May 2024
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    were used as lighthouse illuminants, improved in 1782 with the circular-wick oil-burning Argand lamp, the first ‘catoptric’ mirrored reflector in 1777,...
    33 KB (4,113 words) - 08:52, 24 February 2024
  • constantly care for the lamps. This care involved trimming the wick, which drew the oil up from the storage reservoir, so that the flame would be clean...
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    simple oil hole concept included putting a small reservoir of oil above the hole, which slowly dripped oil into it. An example is the Lunkenheimer oiler in...
    9 KB (1,289 words) - 08:50, 14 August 2023
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    light-source was installed: a Matthews incandescent oil burner replacing the Douglass multi-wick oil burner. At the same time a reed fog signal was installed...
    23 KB (2,962 words) - 15:28, 24 April 2024
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