adjective

• Of or denoting welding or cutting techniques using a very hot flame produced by mixing acetylene and oxygen.

  ‘an oxyacetylene torch’

  More example sentences

  • ‘oxyacetylene welding equipment’
  • ‘We use the heat produced by the burning of acetylene in the flame of the oxyacetylene torch to make welds.’
  • ‘The oxyacetylene torch, for example, produces heat by burning acetylene gas in pure oxygen.’
  • ‘The success and widespread use of this method in 20th-century sculpture has depended on the invention around 1900 of fusion welding using oxyacetylene welding equipment.’
  • ‘The oxyfuel gas welding process uses a flux and either an oxyacetylene or oxyhydrogen gas flame.’
  • ‘These people cut through the side of the metal store with an oxyacetylene torch.’