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    A lava lamp is a decorative lamp, invented in 1963 by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, the founder of the lighting company Mathmos. It consists...
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  • famously the lava lamp invented by its founder Edward Craven Walker. It is headquartered in its factory in Poole, Dorset. The Astro lamp, or lava lamp, was invented...
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    typical white LED lamps. The heat produced by filaments is used in some applications, such as heat lamps in incubators, lava lamps, Edison effect bulbs...
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  • was a British inventor, who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp. Craven was a pilot in World War II, flying a DeHavilland...
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    worked by taking pictures of the patterns made by the floating material in lava lamps, extracting random data from the pictures, and using the result to seed...
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    दीपम्, romanized: Dīpam) is an oil lamp made from clay or mud with a cotton wick dipped in oil or ghee. These lamps are commonly used in the Indian subcontinent...
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    A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties...
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    A germicidal lamp (also known as disinfection lamp or sterilizer lamp) is an electric light that produces ultraviolet C (UVC) light. This short-wave ultraviolet...
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    electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually have...
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    Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
    types: limelight, carbon button lamp, Mazda (light bulb), Nernst glower Novelty: Lava lamp Special purpose: heat lamp, Globar, gas mantle Halogen – special...
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  • winning team. Winners receive US$10,000 and a trophy in the shape of a lava lamp. The show is shot at a disused IKEA in Burbank, California. Prior to finding...
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    An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc...
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    A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light. The arc discharge is generally confined...
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    A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene lamps have a wick...
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  • Look up Lava or lava in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lava is molten volcanic rock or the resulting solid rock after cooling. Lava or LAVA also refer...
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    Singapore offices. The lava lamp installation implements the Lavarand method, where a camera transforms the unpredictable shapes of the "lava" blobs into a digital...
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    Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) examples A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent...
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    A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C2H2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2)...
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    A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon...
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    A metal-halide lamp is an electrical lamp that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides (compounds...
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    An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient...
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    A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed...
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    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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  • (assuming Acme makes vacuum cleaners) if he sells anything else made by Acme (lava lamp) and he also sells vacuum cleaners made by any other brand (Robusto)....
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  • "butchered millions on countless moons". The Lava Lamp Guy is a lava lamp-like demon with two red lava blobs shaped like eyes and red circles visible...
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  • standard incandescent lamps, such as incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks, novelty lamps such as lava lamps, and the Easy-Bake...
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    Lighting (section Lamps)
    effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources like lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight...
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    Street light (redirect from Street lamp)
    A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path...
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    High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten...
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    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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