Blowtorch
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A blowtorch is an obsolete device not in general use since the 1950s. It is roughly the size and shape of a coffee pot from the same era that used gasoline or kerosene as a fuel. It had a hand-pump to blow atmospheric air through the flame, intensifying it, but not enough to melt steel. It was used for soldering, brazing and all other heating uses short of welding and cutting steel. It went obsolete with the advent of the propane torch.
The word "blowtorch" has strong appeal and is often misused in journalism and conversation.
- a cutting torch, a handheld torch used for cutting metal.
- in USA usage, a blowlamp, a torch using propane or butane; its predecessors used gasoline or kerosene for fuel.
- a powerful radio station, especially a clear channel broadcaster.
- One of the G.I.Joe toys is named Blowtorch: he is usually shown with a flamethrower.
- See blowpipe.
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