mopatin | Limelight: Quicklime Light @tinkerbit | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
The limelight is a kind of lighting used at the end of the 19th century in theaters and music halls.

It is produced when heating with a high temperature torch a piece of quick lime. The light is emitted by a combination of the phenomenons of incandescence and candoluminescence.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limelight
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candoluminescence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limelight_(1952_film)