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  • n  a mixture of oxygen and acetylene; used to create high temperatures for cutting or welding metals

  • The oxygen-acetylene flame, directed with an oxyacetylene torch, melts practically every kind of metal almost instantaneously.
  • At 45, he has put away childish things, makes abstract steel things with the help of an oxyacetylene torch and gas welding.
  • Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having to add to their equipmentjimmy, "soup" (nitroglycerin), oxyacetylene blowtorch a gas mask of exceedingly high impenetrability.
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  • Police Beat
    Someone used an oxyacetylene torch to forcefully open two vending machines and a change machine in the break room of a business in the 1400 block of Indianhead Drive sometime between Sept. 7 and Sept. 9. The torch was taken from the tool area of the business, and brown paper was taped to an exterior window, blocking the sparks from being seen outside.
    Sept. 17, 2013 - Dunn County News

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