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When she wakes each morning in the east she lights a small fire, which mankind sees as the first glow of dawn.
The glow reportedly was visible for 100 miles, mutual aid response was required by volunteer fire companies from a dozen nearby fire companies.
The most significant feature of Swan's improved lamp was that there was little residual oxygen in the vacuum tube to ignite the filament, thus allowing the filament to glow almost white-hot without catching fire.
Over the next hour, attempts to put out the fire or put it under control failed as a red glow returned after each effort to douse the fire.
Physically, St. Elmo's fire is a bright blue or violet glow, appearing like fire in some circumstances, from tall, sharply pointed structures such as lightning rods, masts, spires and chimneys, and on aircraft wings.
Air molecules glow due to the effects of such voltage, producing St. Elmo's fire.
The nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere causes St. Elmo's fire to fluoresce with blue or violet light ; this is similar to the mechanism that causes neon lights to glow.
While it shared similarities with St Elmo's fire, the glow experienced was from the impact of ash particles on the leading edges of the aircraft, similar to that seen by operators of sandblasting equipment.
He also indicated that German National Flags colors ( which at the time stood only for the nation, not any political entity ), the black was for gunpowder, the red for blood and the yellow the glow given off by the fire.
The rest of the inhabitants decided to abandon the village and were escorted by the Germans who arrived at Kuty, alerted by the glow of fire and the sound of gunfire.
* The glow in the sky over the fire was noted in ship's logs off the coast of Maine.
The glow of the fire could be seen for kilometres in all directions.
The sparks ( actually pieces of burning steel broken off by the harder flint ) would ignite a very small fire as they fell onto the charcloth, the glow of which could in turn be used to ignite a wood splint, after which the cloth would be extinguished for further use.
Their costumes often include accessories such as glow sticks, light chasers, toy ray guns that light up, go-go shorts embedded with battery operated fiber optic tubes in various colors, strings of battery operated colored lights in plastic tubes, fire sticks, a musical instrument, or an animal ( usually a snake ).
At the end of the poem a ‘ stir in the air ’ or a wave moves the towers so that they create ‘ A void within the filmy heaven .’ Poe speaks in the last part of the poem of the end of days when ‘ the waves now have a redder glow, the hours are breathing faint and low .’ The waves turning red is a sign of hell's coming, because red is the color of fire and hence the color of hell and the devil.
" On October 15, Our Luminary dipped below the horizon in a glow of scarlet fire " painting by Russell W Porter
The stamp also used the words " And the glow from that fire can truly light the world "— an excerpt from Kennedy's inaugural address.
" First the flames went, then the flames reduced and the glow began to die down ," he described, " I went up to check several times until I was satisfied that the fire was out.
However, when they throw an amount of Butterfinger candy bars in the fire, the bars start to glow and are left intact.

glow and through
A few snowflakes sifted down through that theatrical red glow, languid as falling feathers.
The pink-orange glow running through the center of the tube is from the electric discharge which produces incoherent light, just as in a neon tube.
The visual sense is usually isolated by creating a soft red glow which is diffused through half ping-pong balls placed over the recipient's eyes.
Glow-transfer counting tubes, similar in essential function to the Trochotrons, had a glow discharge on one of a number of main cathodes, visible through the top of the glass envelope.
The focus of psychic energy granted the Doctor the ability to de-age himself, float through the air, deflect shots from the Master's laser screwdriver, and telekinetically disarm the Master while surrounded in a powerful blue glow.
Luminarias line the church plaza and the highway on Christmas Eve, giving a soft glow of welcome to those driving through on U. S. Highways 70 and 54.
By the middle of the 19th century, experimenters had observed a radiant glow emanating from partially evacuated glass vessels through which an electric current passed.
When an electrical current passed through a Geissler tube, a strong green glow on the walls of the tube at the cathode end could be observed.
As a parallel with the earlier Charles Knight-designed sleeve-valved automotive powerplants, any RCV sleeve-valved model engine that is run on model glow engine fuel using castor oil as a small percentage ( about 2 % to 4 % content ) of the lubricant in the fuel allows the " varnish " created through engine operation to provide a better pneumatic seal between the rotating cylinder valve and the unitized engine cylinder / head castings, initially formed while the engine is being broken in.
The blue glow of Cherenkov radiation is due to the passage of high intensity ionizing radiation through water.
His work displays true understanding for the crystalline luminosity of marble and how a gently polished and modulated surface could produce an inner glow and how Donatello's famed rilievo schiacciato could be further refined to convey a sense of light softly diffused by its passage through atmosphere.
At a few kilohertz, the welding rod will glow red hot as current flows through the greatly increased A. C. resistance resulting from the skin effect, with relatively little power remaining for the arc itself.
If the four light bulbs are connected in series, there is same current through all of them, and the voltage drop is 1. 5 V across each bulb, which may not be sufficient to make them glow.
If the light bulbs are connected in parallel, the currents through the light bulbs combine to form the current in the battery, while the voltage drop is 6. 0 V across each bulb and they all glow.
After the staircase scene, there are all new ghoulish eyes that glow while monstrous sounds echo through the halls.
A glow stick is a single-use, translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances that, when combined, make light through chemiluminescence, so does not require an electrical power source.
Neon glow lamps were very common in the displays of electronic instruments through the 1970s ; the basic design of neon lamps is now incorporated in contemporary plasma displays.
Ultraviolet radiation is invisible, but a small fraction of visible light passes through the filtering material, with wavelengths no longer than 400-410 nm, and as a result, when operating the lamp emits a dim purple or violet glow.
Approximately at this moment, the school ’ s janitor, James Raymond, saw a red glow through a window while walking by the building.
Nobody was from California, and if you drive into L. A. at night ... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that ... what we started writing the song about.
The moon is seen through thin vaporous clouds which glow with a white disk surrounded by an illuminated red ring.
Dashboard lighting was electroluminescent, which used no incandescent lamps: electricity running through a five-layer laminate caused the phosphorescent paint to glow in the dark.
An electric glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of current at 100 V to several kV through a gas, often argon or another noble gas.
Once free of the cathode, atoms move into the bulk of the glow discharge through drift and due to the energy they gained from sputtering.

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