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What does candling mean?

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  1. present participle of candle
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To illustrate, consider a nest found during the incubation stage and that candling of the eggs revealed they were close to hatching.
First grade that can be separated by candling, corresponding to about twenty-four hours of incubation.
Stage of incubation was determined by candling and by flotation as calibrated for Canvasback eggs.
The loss in candling is generally kept account of, but is seldom charged back to the shipper.
This saved the wages of the egg twirlers, whose method of candling eggs, as it was called, was far less rapid than the Separator.
We found nests during incubation, and estimated the hatching date by candling eggs.

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