Light tubes (also known as solar pipes, tubular skylights or sun tunnels) are structures that transmit or distribute natural or artificial light for the...
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Fluorescent lamp (redirect from Tube light)
fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric current in...
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Neon lighting (redirect from Neon tube)
electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube is a sealed...
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A light tube is used for transporting natural or artificial light for illumination. Light tube or light pipe may also refer to: Waveguide (optics), a...
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gas-filled tube surrounded by a lens. When electricity is applied, the tube flashes and is magnified by the lens, and a 360 degree light is emitted....
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Sodium-vapor lamp (redirect from Sodium light)
discharge. The discharge tube may be linear (SLI lamp) or U-shaped. When the lamp is first started, it emits a dim red/pink light to warm the sodium metal;...
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commercially produced incandescent light bulbs in the 1920s. In 1840, Warren de la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current...
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detection of light intensities. In both types, the electrons are accelerated from the cathode to the anode by the electric field in the tube. The simplest...
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Mercury-vapor lamp (redirect from Mercury-vapor discharge tube)
through vaporized mercury to produce light. The arc discharge is generally confined to a small fused quartz arc tube mounted within a larger soda lime or...
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Metal-halide lamp (redirect from Metal halide light)
tube, which improve the efficiency and color rendition of the light. The most common metal halide compound used is sodium iodide. Once the arc tube reaches...
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Germicidal lamp (redirect from Germicidal light)
fluorescent lamp but the tube contains no fluorescent phosphor. In addition, rather than being made of ordinary borosilicate glass, the tube is made of fused...
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A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a...
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ultraviolet light used for indoor tanning Blacklight – Light fixture that emits long-wave ultraviolet light and very little visible light Geissler tube – Early...
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Glow stick (redirect from Chemical light)
a translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances that, when combined, make light through chemiluminescence. The light cannot be turned off and...
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Compact fluorescent lamp (redirect from Compact fluorescent light bulb)
compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent light bulb; some types...
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Fluorescent-lamp formats (section Tube designations)
visible light, commonly used in nightclubs. Other non-standard designations apply for plant lights or grow lights. This section lists the more common tube ratings...
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A Nixie tube (English: /ˈnɪk.siː/ NIK-see), or cold cathode display, is an electronic device used for displaying numerals or other information using glow...
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad...
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The Centennial Light is an incandescent light bulb, recognized as the oldest known continuously operating light bulb. It was first illuminated in 1901...
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Liter of Light is an open source design for a low-cost light tube (or deck prism or vault light) that refracts solar light to provide daytime interior...
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Daylighting (architecture) (section Light tubes)
midwinter, light incidence is highly directional and casts long shadows. This may be partially ameliorated through light diffusion, light pipes or tubes, and...
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Video camera tubes were devices based on the cathode-ray tube that were used in television cameras to capture television images, prior to the introduction...
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Blacklight (redirect from Black Light)
the filter material, so it produces more visible light and has a blue color when operating. These tubes are made for use in "bug zapper" insect traps, and...
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A gas-filled tube, also commonly known as a discharge tube or formerly as a Plücker tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating...
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Cold cathode (redirect from Cold cathode fluorescent light)
counter devices. The flash tube is a cold-cathode device filled with xenon gas, used to produce an intense short pulse of light for photography or to act...
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Photomultiplier tubes (photomultipliers or PMTs for short) are extremely sensitive detectors of light in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ranges...
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Tritium radioluminescence (redirect from Beta light)
tubes with a phosphor layer in them and tritium gas inside the tube. Such a tube is known as a "gaseous tritium light source" (GTLS), or beta light (since...
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LED lamp (redirect from LED light bulb)
a low pressure tube of mercury vapor, which is converted to visible light by a fluorescent coating (phosphor) on the inside of the tube. These are more...
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