Nernst lamp

English

Etymology

Developed by the German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst in 1897 at Goettingen University.

Noun

Nernst lamp (plural Nernst lamps)

1. A type of incandescent lamp using a ceramic rod, used as a source of infrared radiation.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 127:

     Chick Counterfly had already brought out of its storage locker a peculiar-looking optical contraption of prisms, lenses, Nernst lamps, and adjustment screws, into an appropriate receptacle of which he now carefully placed the pearl.

Translations

type of incandescent lamp