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A mixture of oxygen and acetylene, which burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals. examples
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Using this mixture. quotations examples
The first stage of the demolition work consisted of removing, by oxy-acetylene cutting, the whole of the plate floor, cross-girders, and lattice parapets.
1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 53