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    An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient...
    76 KB (7,680 words) - 02:12, 28 April 2024
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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...
    96 KB (11,313 words) - 02:50, 15 May 2024
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    The Davy lamp is a safety lamp used in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed...
    26 KB (3,295 words) - 22:05, 24 March 2024
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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...
    11 KB (1,186 words) - 10:45, 9 May 2024
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    An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc...
    25 KB (3,115 words) - 04:58, 8 April 2024
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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)...
    12 KB (1,399 words) - 09:41, 14 May 2024
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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 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...
    23 KB (2,776 words) - 12:00, 19 May 2024
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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...
    30 KB (3,012 words) - 22:53, 16 May 2024
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    Aladdin (redirect from Spirit of the Lamp)
    program Faerie Tale Theatre based an episode on the story called "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine as...
    49 KB (6,005 words) - 06:00, 23 May 2024
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    A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed...
    28 KB (3,512 words) - 16:04, 28 November 2023
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    metal, glass, or plastic, which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture, which is often called a "lamp" as well. The electrical connection to the...
    41 KB (4,337 words) - 18:40, 11 May 2024
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    A lava lamp is a decorative lamp, invented in 1963 by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, the founder of the lighting company Mathmos. It consists...
    12 KB (1,374 words) - 01:19, 11 April 2024
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    candle wick and oil than in other lamps required much less frequent trimming of the wick. In France, the lamp is called "Quinquet", after Antoine-Arnoult...
    5 KB (631 words) - 16:06, 13 March 2024
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    Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) examples A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent...
    77 KB (8,196 words) - 20:41, 29 April 2024
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    A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene lamps have a wick...
    22 KB (2,685 words) - 02:04, 16 March 2024
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    A signal lamp (sometimes called an Aldis lamp or a Morse lamp) is a visual signaling device for optical communication by flashes of a lamp, typically...
    8 KB (950 words) - 07:54, 24 March 2024
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    many different types of fluorescent lamp have been introduced. Systematic nomenclature identifies mass-market lamps as to overall shape, power rating,...
    22 KB (1,429 words) - 03:51, 28 January 2024
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    An oil lamp is a lamp used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source. The use of oil lamps began thousands of...
    32 KB (4,198 words) - 21:12, 25 May 2024
  • UV-B lamps are lamps that emit a spectrum of ultraviolet light with wavelengths ranging from 290–320 nanometers. This spectrum is also commonly called the...
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