It turned abruptly to white-hot incandescence as the falling enormity touched atmosphere, and crashed down upon them.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
Almost all the metals, except the precious metals, such as gold, silver, and platinum, burn, or oxydize more or less rapidly, when they are put in contact with oxygen; for, besides those lively combustions, in which metals, or other materials, become hot and are maintained in a state of incandescence, there are other kinds of burning which may be called slow combustions.
"In Search of a Son"
William Shepard Walsh
The twilight flush already suffused the sky with incandescence.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook