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Uncommon card · Science
Gas lighting, an Uncommon card
Gas lighting is the production of artificial light by burning a fuel gas.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 63,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Gas lighting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gas lighting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Light may be produced directly by the flame or indirectly by heating another material to ______, as in a gas mantle or limelight.
Answer
incandescence. Light may be produced directly by the flame or indirectly by heating another material to incandescence, as in a gas mantle or limelight. From the Gas lighting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Karl Pearson. Karl Pearson 79 · Gas lighting 76 · Cupronickel 72 · Pax Mongolica 68 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Light may be produced directly by the flame or indirectly by heating another material to incandescence, as in a gas mantle or limelight.
- During the period when gas lighting was widespread, its principal fuel was coal gas, natural gas later replaced coal gas in many places.
- Experiments with combustible gases preceded the practical development of gas lighting, but widespread use began in the early 19th century.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gas lighting article was read about 63,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Gas lighting
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Gas lighting in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Crystal violetUncommon · Science · ATK 72 DEF 75
- CullingUncommon · Nature · ATK 73 DEF 74
- Pax MongolicaUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 79
- Karl PearsonUncommon · Science · ATK 79 DEF 68
- LiverwortUncommon · Nature · ATK 74 DEF 73
- RailUncommon · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 76
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gas lighting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aw58, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
