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mercury-vapor lamp::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ultraviolet lamp, ultraviolet source |
| Has types | sun lamp, quartz lamp, sunray lamp, sunlamp, sun-ray lamp |
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Hewitt's lamp luminesced when an electric current was passed through mercury vapor at a low pressure.
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As the lamp warms, more of the mercury is in vapor form.
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A fluorescent lamp tube is filled with a gas containing low pressure mercury vapor and argon, xenon, neon, or krypton.
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Mercury vapor lamps also anticipated the fluorescent lamp in their incorporation of a ballast to maintain a constant current.
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To produce coherent light he passed the monochromatic light from an emission line of a mercury-vapor lamp through a pinhole spatial filter.
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The mercury-vapor lamp was superior to the incandescent lamps of the time in terms of energy efficiency, but the blue-green light it produced limited its applications.
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The spectrum of light emitted from a fluorescent lamp is the combination of light directly emitted by the mercury vapor, and light emitted by the phosphorescent coating.
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Light from a 200-watt mercury vapor lamp was focused on a diffraction grating, which, like a prism, broke up the beam into its constituent rainbow of colors, its separate wave lengths of light.
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