limelight: see calcium oxide calcium oxide, chemical compound, CaO, a colorless, cubic crystalline or white amorphous substance. It is also called lime, quicklime, or caustic lime, but commercial lime often contains impurities, e.g., silica, iron, alumina, and magnesia.
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limelight

Early form of theatrical lighting. The incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816 was first employed in a theatre in 1837 and was widely used by the 1860s. Its soft, brilliant light enabled it to be focused for spotlighting and to create effects such as sunlight and moonlight. The expression “in the limelight” referred to the most desirable acting area on the stage, the front and centre, which was illuminated by limelights. Electric lighting replaced limelight in the late 19th century.

limelight

a. a type of lamp, formerly used in stage lighting, in which light is produced by heating lime to white heat

b. brilliant white light produced in this way

limelight [′līm‚līt]

(engineering)

A light source once used in spotlights; it consisted of a block of lime heated to incandescence by means of an oxyhydrogen flame torch.

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From the thirties till the seventies, the klezmer was out of the limelights.

Discover What Is Really Klezmer Music by Arik Nitsan / Arts and entertainment industries community

JF Hill, Sittingborne, Kent A LIMELIGHTS were used in theatres as spotlights before electricity.

Question Time by The Mirror (London, England)

We can only assume that extreme care was taken to keep the limelights perfectly dry, because when calcium oxide comes into contact with even the slightest amount of moisture, it rapidly heats, bubbles and releases a large amount of high-temperature steam.

Masa in the limelight; Masa (mah-sah): the Spanish word for "dough": ... by Art Culinaire

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