Meaning Of The Word Fluorescent lamp
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Fluorescent lamp Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Fluorescent lamp?
fluorescent lamp in American English
a glass tube coated on the inside with a fluorescent substance that gives off a bright light (fluorescent light) when a vapor, usually mercury vapor, in the tube is acted upon by a stream of electrons from the cathode noun: a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube fluorescent lamp in British English noun: a type of lamp in which an electrical gas discharge is maintained in a tube with a thin layer of phosphor on its inside surface. The gas, which is often mercury vapour, emits ultraviolet radiation causing the phosphor to fluoresce |
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