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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 between...
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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 deuterium arc lamp (or simply deuterium lamp) is a low-pressure gas-discharge light source often used in spectroscopy when a continuous spectrum in the...
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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 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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    (arc tube) with a metal cap. They include the sodium-vapor lamp that is the gas-discharge lamp used in street lighting. The low-pressure sodium arc discharge...
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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 electrodes...
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    Single-ended self-starting lamps are insulated with a mica disc and contained in a borosilicate glass gas discharge tube (arc tube) and a metal cap. They...
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    lamps, which produce light by a filament heated white-hot by electric current, gas-discharge lamps, which produce light by means of an electric arc through...
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    Flashtube (redirect from Krypton flash lamp)
    length of the lamp and electrodes. High average power or continuous-wave arc lamps must have the water flow across the ends of the lamp, and across the...
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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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    electric arc, by passing high current between two pieces of charcoal. For the next 40 years much research was given to turning the carbon arc lamp into a...
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    been used, such as chemical or nuclear reactions. A laser pumped with an arc lamp or a flashlamp is usually pumped through the lateral wall of the lasing...
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    arc lamp". Techniques for arc suppression can be used to reduce the duration or likelihood of arc formation. In the late 19th century, electric arc lighting...
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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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    Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide (HMI) is the trademark name of Osram's brand of metal-halide gas discharge medium arc-length lamp, made specifically for...
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  • org. Retrieved 17 November 2021. "Arc Lamps". Edison Tech Center. Retrieved 2015-08-20. "Technical Information on Lamps" (PDF). Optical Building Blocks...
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  • an electric arc through mercury vapor Metal-halide lamp – Type of lamp Sodium-vapor lamp – Type of electric gas-discharge lamp Sulfur lamp – Lighting system...
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    tube wall to cool the arc edge. Argon arc lamps carry the disadvantages of short lifetimes and poor reliability. Carbon arc lamps have an emission similar...
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  • Arclight (redirect from Arc light)
    arclight or arc lamp is a lamp that produces a bright light by generating an electric arc across two electrodes. Arclight, Arc Light or arc light may also...
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    carbon arc, incandescent, and high-intensity gas discharge lamps for street lighting. The earliest street lights in the colonial America were oil lamps burning...
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    ultra-high-performance lamp, often known by the Philips trademark UHP, is a high-pressure mercury arc lamp. These were originally known as ultra-high-pressure lamps, because...
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    Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
    Wallwasher Arc lamps Xenon arc lamp, Yablochkov candle Fluorescent Fluorescent lamp, compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), Induction lamp, blacklight. Fuel lamps Betty...
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    ultraviolet light produced by the mercury arc to pass out of the lamp unmodified (whereas, in common fluorescent lamps, it causes the phosphor to fluoresce...
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  • Arc lamp, a lamp that produces light by an electric arc Xenon arc lamp, a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp Deuterium arc lamp, a low-pressure...
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    A Klieg light is an intense carbon arc lamp especially used in filmmaking. It is named after inventor John Kliegl and his brother Anton Kliegl. Klieg lights...
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    electric arc lamp, the so-called "Plzen Lamp" which was displayed at the International Exposition of Electricity in Paris in 1881. This lamp, with self-adjusting...
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    Yablochkov candle (category Gas discharge lamps)
    (sometimes electric candle or Jablochkoff candle) is a type of electric carbon arc lamp, invented in 1876 by the Russian electrical engineer Pavel Yablochkov....
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  • bulb. This type of lamp must be driven by high-frequency alternating current, and depends on an electric arc or perhaps a vacuum arc to produce high current...
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    14 in [250 to 360 mm] thick) Replacement of the lamp in lamp-based units. The life span of an arc lamp averages 2000–5000 hours and the replacement cost...
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