Tonight’s mystery band has a hit named after an element that could take the heat. Think you know the song or the band??

The band is Rush if you haven't guessed. The song is 'Limelight'. Merriam Webster defines Limelight as a stage lighting instrument producing illumination by means of an oxyhydrogen flame directed on a cylinder of lime and usually equipped with a lens to concentrate the light in a beam. Wikipedia goes onto say the intense illumination can be created when an oxyhydrogen flame that is directed at a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide) because it can be heated to 2,572 °C (4,662 °F) before melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminesence. Used in early theatre the term Limelight evolved to also mean a spotlight which is the thing that ‘Rush’ wrote of in their song ‘Limelight’

 

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