airohydrogen

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airohydrogen (not comparable)

  1. Of, or using a mixture of, hydrogen and air.
    Coordinate term: oxyhydrogen
    • 1861, Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering, volume 2, page 596:
      The airohydrogen blowpipe is supplied with common air and with pure hydrogen; []
    • 1950, Robert Macy Starbuck, Questions and Answers on the Practice and Theory of Sanitary Plumbing, volume 1, page 116:
      What is the principle of the oxyhydrogen and airohydrogen flame? These flames are produced by the mixture of proper proportions of oxygen and hydrogen gases, which mixture is highly explosive.