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Fluorescent lamp

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Fluorescent Lamp Summary
648 words, approx. 2 pages
You might think that the everyday light bulb is the most common type of lighting today, but actually--if you count all the offices and factories in the United States--the fluorescent lamp outshines the incandescent light bulb as our main source of...
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Fluorescent Lamp
158 words, approx. 1 pages
electric discharge lamp, cooler and more efficient than incandescent lamps, that produces light by the fluorescence of a phosphor coating. A fluorescent lamp consists of a glass tube filled with a mixture of argon and mercury vapour. Metal electrodes...
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Fluorescent Lamp
79 words, approx. 1 pages
Type of electric discharge lamp consisting of a glass tube filled with a mixture of argon and mercury vapor. A current of electricity causes the vapor to produce ultraviolet radiation that, in turn, excites a phosphor coating on the inside of the tube,...
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Fluorescent lamp Information
9,989 words, approx. 33 pages
A fluorescent lamp or fluorescent tube is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, resulting in a plasma that produces short-wave ultraviolet light. This light then causes a phosphor to fluoresce,...


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Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning Engineering : HPAC
Compact Fluorescent Lamps
09/01/2007: 991 words, approx. 3 pages
Assertions regarding money and energy savings are not always reliable It commonly is thought that replacing incandescent lamps with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) always results in substantially lower electricity consumption and utility costs. CFLs are advocated widely for commercial use with the understanding...
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Buildings
Fluorescent lamps 101.(LIGHTING)
05/01/2008: 3,663 words, approx. 12 pages
Look up. Chances are good that the lamps illuminating this very page are fluorescent. More than two-thirds of all commercial and industrial facilities in the United States had installed fluorescent lighting by the 1960s, according to Advanced Lighting Guidelines: 2003 Edition, a document...
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Philippines to ban incandescent bulbs
2/5/2008: 309 words, approx. 1 pages
The Philippines will phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010 in favor of more energy-efficient fluorescent globes to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and household costs, the president said Tuesday.Acknowledging similar moves in Canada and Australia, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called for a ban on incandescent...
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Edison's light bulb could be endangered
2/9/2007: 460 words, approx. 2 pages
One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way.The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the...
 


 

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