A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric...
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fluorescent lamp (CFL) examples A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent tube...
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1939, many different types of fluorescent lamp have been introduced. Systematic nomenclature identifies mass-market lamps as to overall shape, power rating...
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Fluorescent lamp recycling is the recovery of the materials of a spent fluorescent lamp for the manufacture of new products. Glass tubing can be turned...
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energy-efficient than equivalent incandescent lamps and fluorescent lamps. The most efficient commercially available LED lamps have efficiencies exceeding 200 lumens...
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Fluorescent lamps have been suggested to affect human health in various ways. New lighting systems have not used magnetic ballasts since the turn of the...
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Low-pressure mercury lamps High-pressure mercury lamps Excimer lamps LEDs Low-pressure mercury lamps are very similar to a fluorescent lamp, with a wavelength...
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with sulfur vapor or metal halides, and fluorescent induction lamps, which are like a conventional fluorescent lamp bulb that induces current with an external...
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Electrical ballast (redirect from Lamp ballast)
familiar and widely used example is the inductive ballast used in fluorescent lamps to limit the current through the tube, which would otherwise rise...
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Electric light (redirect from Lamp (electrical component))
produce light by means of an electric arc through a gas, such as fluorescent lamps, and LED lamps, which produce light by a flow of electrons across a band gap...
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Blacklight (redirect from Wood's lamp)
may be specially designed fluorescent lamps, mercury-vapor lamps, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, or incandescent lamps. In medicine, forensics,...
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gas discharge lamps, which produce light by an arc between metal electrodes through a gas in a glass bulb. The common fluorescent lamp is a low-pressure...
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Fluorescence (redirect from Fluorescent)
common everyday application is in (gas-discharge) fluorescent lamps and LED lamps, in which fluorescent coatings convert UV or blue light into longer-wavelengths...
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Incandescent light bulb (redirect from Incandescent lamp)
fluorescents and 20,000–30,000 hours for lighting LEDs. Most incandescent bulbs can be replaced by fluorescent lamps, high-intensity discharge lamps,...
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Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
Arc lamps Xenon arc lamp, Yablochkov candle Fluorescent Fluorescent lamp, compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), Induction lamp, blacklight. Fuel lamps Betty...
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it. Mercury vapor lamp ballasts are similar to the ballasts used with fluorescent lamps. In fact, the first British fluorescent lamps were designed to...
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developed alongside it. The development of high-efficiency, low-cost fluorescent lamps led to a reliance on electric light and a uniform blanket approach...
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the lamp's glass surface. The fluorescent lamp is perhaps the best known gas-discharge lamp. Compared to incandescent lamps, gas-discharge lamps offer...
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similar to a conventional lamp. Standard and halogen incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than LED and compact fluorescent lamps, and therefore have been...
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reviewed the connections between light from fluorescent lamps, especially from compact fluorescent lamp, and numerous human diseases, with results including:...
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not prosper commercially. Plasma lamps with an internal phosphor coating are called external electrode fluorescent lamps (EEFL); these external electrodes...
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environment inside the lamp. Fluorescent tanning lamps require an electrical ballast to limit the amount of current going through the lamp. While the resistance...
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Lighting (section Compact fluorescent lamps)
sources such as fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps. Some lamps require the ballast to have thermal protection. fluorescent light: A tube...
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small incandescent light bulbs (especially halogen lamps), and for starters on some types of fluorescent lights. Some sockets have pins placed closer together...
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Ultraviolet (redirect from Ultraviolet lamp)
of mercury lamps.[citation needed] A black light lamp emits long-wave UV‑A radiation and little visible light. Fluorescent black light lamps work similarly...
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LED tube (category LED lamps)
type of LED lamp used in fluorescent tube luminaires with G5 and G13 bases to replace traditional fluorescent tubes. As compared to fluorescent tubes, the...
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is not important. LPS lamps are similar to fluorescent lamps in that they are a low-intensity light source with a linear lamp shape. They do not exhibit...
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List of light sources (section Lamps)
fluorescence to produce light Compact fluorescent lamp – Fluorescent lamps with folded tubes, often with built-in ballast Tanning lamp – Device which produces ultraviolet...
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A fluorescent lamp crusher is a device that crushes and stores spent fluorescent lamps prior to processing at a recycling facility, while controlling the...
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Cold cathode (redirect from Cold cathode fluorescent light)
motion of moving parts. Cold-cathode lamps include cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) and neon lamps. Neon lamps primarily rely on excitation of gas...
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