FLUORESCENT LAMP
A class with identifier
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Definition | A <FLUORESCENT LAMP> is an <ARTEFACT> and a <LAMP> that is electric and usually tubular, and that has a coating of fluorescent material on its inner surface and containing mercury vapor whose bombardment by electrons from the cathode provides ultraviolet light which causes the material to emit visible light |
ISO number | 2861 |
Note | Especially a tubular electric-discharge lamp containing mercury vapour, ultra-violet radiation from which causes the fluorescence of a coating of phosphor on the inside of the tube. |
RDS number | RDS960524 |
Source | Oxford English Dictionary (OED) |
Electrical |