Plasma lamps are a type of electrodeless gas-discharge lamp energized by radio frequency (RF) power. They are distinct from the novelty plasma lamps that...
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A plasma ball, plasma globe, or plasma lamp is a clear glass container filled with noble gases, usually a mixture of neon, krypton, and xenon, that has...
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The sulfur lamp (also sulphur lamp) is a highly efficient full-spectrum electrodeless lighting system whose light is generated by sulfur plasma that has...
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metal electrodes in conventional fluorescent lamps[citation needed] Two systems are common: plasma lamps, in which microwaves or radio waves, energizes...
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Royal Rife (redirect from Rife plasma lamp devices)
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. Rife...
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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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incandescent lamp filament inherently limits the current inside the lamp, tanning lamps do not and instead have negative resistance. They are plasma devices...
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in circuitry. While these lamps are now antiques, the technology of the neon glow lamp developed into contemporary plasma displays and televisions. Neon...
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Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
gas mantle Halogen – special class of incandescent lamps Nuclear: self-powered lighting Plasma lamp LED (solid-state lighting) There are various types...
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Crackle tube (category Gas discharge lamps)
A crackle tube is a type of plasma lamp that is used most commonly in museums, night clubs, movie sets, and other applications where its appearance may...
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Plasma (from Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma) 'moldable substance') is a state of matter that results from a gaseous state having undergone some degree of...
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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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everyday example of rapid plasma recombination occurs when a fluorescent lamp is switched off. The low-density plasma in the lamp (which generates the light...
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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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Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically...
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distribution, the plasma is said to be non-Maxwellian. A kind of common nonthermal plasma is the mercury-vapor gas within a fluorescent lamp, where the "electron...
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List of light sources (section Lamps)
event Argand lamp – Oil lamp with a gravity feed Carbide lamp – Acetylene-burning lamps Coleman lantern – Series of pressure lamps Betty lamp – Oil or grease...
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are turned off (called hot restrike lamps). The Vortek water-wall plasma arc lamp, invented in 1975 by David Camm and Roy Nodwell at the University of...
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A neon lamp (also neon glow lamp) is a miniature gas-discharge lamp. The lamp typically consists of a small glass capsule that contains a mixture of neon...
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A hollow-cathode lamp (HCL) is type of cold cathode lamp used in physics and chemistry as a spectral line source (e.g. for atomic absorption spectrometers)...
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lava lamps are still made in the original factory in Poole, Dorset. Bubble light Lavarand, a random number generator that used lava lamps Plasma globe...
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A plasma display panel is a type of flat-panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions...
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Flashtube (redirect from Krypton flash lamp)
nearly all the plasma is concentrated at the surface, the lamps have very low inductance and flashes can often be shorter than a normal lamp of comparative...
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a continuous spectrum in the ultraviolet region is needed. Plasma "arc" or discharge lamps using hydrogen are notable for their high output in the ultraviolet...
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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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Glow discharge (redirect from DC coupled plasma)
of light in devices such as neon lights, cold cathode fluorescent lamps and plasma-screen televisions. Analyzing the light produced with spectroscopy...
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v t e Nikola Tesla Career and inventions Patents Plasma lamp plasma globe Polyphase system Alternating-current commutatorless induction motor Tesla Experimental...
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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 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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Phosphor, great beam distance light powered by a laser Light emitting plasma, or plasma lamps Light emitting polymer Lep, an abbreviation for Lepus (constellation)...
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