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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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    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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    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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    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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    discharge. A gas-discharge lamp is an electric light using a gas-filled tube; these include fluorescent lamps, metal-halide lamps, sodium-vapor lamps...
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    The induction lamp, electrodeless lamp, or electrodeless induction lamp is a gas-discharge lamp in which an electric or magnetic field transfers the power...
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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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    arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon gas at...
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    a type of high-intensity discharge (HID) gas discharge lamp. Developed in the 1960s, they are similar to mercury vapor lamps, but contain additional metal...
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    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 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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  • Metal-halide lamp – Type of lamp Sodium-vapor lamp – Type of electric gas-discharge lamp Sulfur lamp – Lighting system Xenon arc lamp – Gas discharge lamp that...
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    high voltages, and emits light by the same mechanism as a gas discharge lamp. Corona discharges can also happen in weather, such as thunderstorms, where...
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    Plasma globe (redirect from Lightning lamp)
    voltage phenomena. Tesla called his invention an "inert gas discharge tube". The modern plasma lamp design was developed by James Falk and MIT student Bill...
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    used for gas discharge lamps, which produce light by an arc between metal electrodes through a gas in a glass bulb. The common fluorescent lamp is a low-pressure...
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    circuiting the incandescent filament. As with all gas-discharge lamps, low- and high-pressure mercury lamps exhibit negative resistance and require the use...
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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...
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    depends on the gas used. Glow discharges are used as a source of light in devices such as neon lights, cold cathode fluorescent lamps and plasma-screen...
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    Cold cathode (category Gas discharge lamps)
    supplied by thermionic emission alone. It is used in gas-discharge lamps, such as neon lamps, discharge tubes, and some types of vacuum tube. The other type...
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  • barrier Gas-discharge lamp, a light bulb that includes a discharge gas Partial discharge, a temporary breakdown of electrical insulation Discharge (sentence)...
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    (HMI) is the trademark name of Osram's brand of metal-halide gas discharge medium arc-length lamp, made specifically for film and entertainment applications...
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    steady current can illustrate the gas spectrum in a gas-filled tube. A neon lamp is an example of a gas-discharge lamp, useful both for illumination and...
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  • lifetime of DBD excimer lamps in comparison with others. Moreover, a dielectric barrier discharge ensures effective excitation of a gas mixture in a wide range...
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    electric lights are incandescent lamps, which produce light by a filament heated white-hot by electric current, gas-discharge lamps, which produce light by means...
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  • Provisions Concerning the Approval of Light Sources for Use in Approved Gas-Discharge Lamp Units of Power-Driven Vehicles ECE Regulation 99 Amendment 3 Types...
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    cold cathode lamp that does not have a hollow cathode. An HCL usually consists of a glass tube containing a cathode, an anode, and a buffer gas (usually a...
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    Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
    Safety lamps: Davy lamp and Geordie lamp Gas-discharge lamp and high-intensity discharge lamp (HID) Mercury-vapor lamp, Metal-halide (HMI, HQI, CDM), Sodium...
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    ceramic metal-halide lamp (CMH), also generically known as a ceramic discharge metal-halide (CDM) lamp, is a type of metal-halide lamp that is 10–20% more...
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    Compact fluorescent lamp List of light sources Fluorescent lamp recycling T5 retrofit conversion Funke and Oranje, "Gas Discharge Lamps"; N.V Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken...
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    A Carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C2H2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2)...
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