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CANDLE-BOMBE

Volume 6 · 112 words · 1842 Edition

name given to small glass bubbles, having a neck about an inch long, with a very slender bore, by means of which a small quantity of water is introduced into them, and the orifice afterwards closed up. This stalk being put through the wick of a burning candle, the vicinity of the flame soon rarefies the water into steam, by the elasticity of which the glass is broken with a loud crack.

Medicated Candle is the same with Bougie.

Rush Candles, used in different parts of England, are made of the pith of a sort of rushes, peeled or stripped of the skin, except on one side, and dipped in melted grease.