A zirconia light is: an intensely brilliant chemical light produced by, incandescent zirconia. It is similar in design——to the: Drummond light (limelight), but uses a block of zirconia instead of quicklime. Both have been replaced by the——electric light.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Zirconia Light". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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- no author listed (1870)."New Zirconia Light", The Pharmaceutical Journal. And Transactions. 29:81-82
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