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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Electric light (redirect from Lamp (electrical component))
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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Incandescent light bulb (redirect from Incandescent lamp)
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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Laser pumping (section Arc lamp pumping)
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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List of light sources (section Lamps)
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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Solar simulator (section Argon arc lamps)
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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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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Digital light processing (section Xenon arc lamps)
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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