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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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    metal vapor. The usual metals are sodium and mercury owing to their visible spectrum emission. One hundred years of research later led to lamps without...
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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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    incandescent lamp was $280; for mercury vapor lamps, it was $128; and for low-pressure sodium vapor lamps, it was $60 a year. Meanwhile, high-pressure sodium vapor...
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    metal-halide lamps as used in cinematography Mercury-vapor lamp Sodium-vapor lamp Neon lamp Sulfur lamp Charles Proteus Steinmetz Hordeski, Michael F. (2005)...
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    gas discharge tube (arc tube) and a metal cap. They include the sodium-vapor lamp that is commonly used in street lighting. Borosilicate glass usually melts...
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    Varieties of HID lamp include: Mercury-vapor lamps Metal-halide (MH) lamps Ceramic MH lamps Sodium-vapor lamps Xenon short-arc lamps The light-producing...
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    Mercury-vapor lamps and sodium vapor lamps produce light from atoms in excited states. Flammable liquids do not burn when ignited. It is the vapor cloud...
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    and cites SLIders' claims of being able to "extinguish a row of sodium vapor lamps in sequence, each one going out as the witnesses nears it." Some proponents...
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    Timeline of lighting technology (category Types of lamp)
    patents the coiled coil filament. 1920 Arthur Compton invents the sodium-vapor lamp. 1921 Junichi Miura creates the first incandescent lightbulb to utilize...
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    The sodium vapor process (occasionally referred to as yellowscreen) is a photochemical film technique for combining actors and background footage. It originated...
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    (used in “eraser” cleaning sponges) as a support has also been suggested. Sodium is a common component or contaminant in many samples, and its spectrum tends...
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    Grow light (redirect from Grow lamp)
    integral PI curve Types of lamps Fluorescent lamp Compact fluorescent lamp Sodium-vapor lamp High-pressure sodium-vapor lamp "How to Choose the Proper...
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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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    gas-discharge lamp is an electric light using a gas-filled tube; these include fluorescent lamps, metal-halide lamps, sodium-vapor lamps, and neon lights...
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    can produce misinterpretations if the light pollution changes from sodium-vapor lamp to LED. The SQM is produced by the Canadian company Unihedron in Grimsby...
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    of light a lamp puts out. The luminous intensity (in candelas) is a measure of how bright the beam in a particular direction is. If a lamp has a 1 lumen...
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    fluorescent lamps[citation needed] Two systems are common: plasma lamps, in which microwaves or radio waves, energizes a bulb filled with sulfur vapor or metal...
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    incandescent lamp but with the envelope containing a few droplets of mercury. In this design, the incandescent filament heats the mercury, producing a vapor which...
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  • a 1995 pop group led by Samantha Fox SOX, a type of low-pressure Sodium-vapor lamp Sox, robotic feline character from the 2022 American 3D-animated film...
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    Street light (redirect from Street lamp)
    implement LED street lighting in 2006. Since then, sodium-vapor lamps were slowly being replaced by LED lamps. Photovoltaic-powered LED luminaires are gaining...
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    sodium vapor source will block the lamp light; when the magnet is turned on the lamp light will be visible through the vapor. The sodium vapor can be...
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  • mercury vapor Metal-halide lamp – Type of lamp Sodium-vapor lamp – Type of electric gas-discharge lamp Sulfur lamp – Lighting system Xenon arc lamp – Gas...
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    Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
    and Geordie lamp Gas-discharge lamp and high-intensity discharge lamp (HID) Mercury-vapor lamp, Metal-halide (HMI, HQI, CDM), Sodium vapor or "high-pressure...
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  • indicates the lamp is a sodium vapor lamp (HPS/LPS). A blue sticker indicates the lamp is mercury vapor (MV). A red sticker indicates the lamp is metal halide...
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    sodium-vapor lamps use a neon Penning mixture for warm up and can be operated as giant neon lamps if operated in a low power mode. Once the neon lamp...
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    color of which will be familiar to anyone who has seen a low pressure sodium vapor lamp. In the original spectroscope design in the early 19th century, light...
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    Low Pressure Sodium Lamp". "Lighting Comparison: LED vs High Pressure Sodium/Low Pressure Sodium". www.stouchlighting.com. "The Sodium Lamp – How it works...
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    reservoir into a gas chamber. Vapor from the chamber burns, heating a mantle to incandescence and providing heat. Kerosene lamps are widely used for lighting...
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    configuration to another by absorbing or emitting energy. In a sodium-vapor lamp for example, sodium atoms are excited to the 3p level by an electrical discharge...
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