high-pressure mercury vapor lamp

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• Mercury-vapor lamp — Mercury Lamp redirects here. For the character in the Rozen Maiden anime and manga, see Characters of Rozen Maiden. A 175 watt mercury vapor yard light approximately 15 seconds after starting …   Wikipedia

• high pressure mercury arc lamp — an ultraviolet radiation lamp having a high vapor pressure with high intensity light because of linear spectral emissions in many wavelength ranges; used as a source of ultraviolet B for treating dermatologic disorders. See also Goeckerman… …   Medical dictionary

• low pressure mercury arc lamp — an ultraviolet radiation lamp having a low vapor pressure, low amperage, high voltage, and a glow discharge; more than 95 per cent of its emission is ultraviolet C in the mercury vapor resonance emission line at 254 nm. In the treatment of skin… …   Medical dictionary

• mercury arc lamp — mercury vapor lamp, quartz lamp a lamp in which the arc is struck in mercury and is enclosed in a quartz burner; used in photodynamic therapy. The two most common types are the low pressure or cold quartz type and the high pressure or hot quartz… …   Medical dictionary

• High-intensity discharge (HID) lamp —   A lamp that produces light by passing electricity through gas, which causes the gas to glow. Examples of HID lamps are mercury vapor lamps, metal halide lamps, and high pressure sodium lamps. HID lamps have extremely long life and emit far more …   Energy terms

• Mercury (element) — gold ← mercury → thallium Cd ↑ Hg ↓ Cn …   Wikipedia

• Sodium vapor lamp — A sodium vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp which uses sodium in an excited state to produce light. There are two varieties of such lamps: low pressure and high pressure . Low pressure sodium Low pressure sodium (LPS) lamps, also known as sodium… …   Wikipedia

• High-intensity discharge lamp — A High intensity discharge (HID) lamp is a type of electrical lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina tube. This tube is filled… …   Wikipedia

• Gas-discharge lamp — See also: Gas filled tube Germicidal lamps are simple low pressure mercury vapor discharges in a fused quartz envelope. Gas discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electrical discharge through an …   Wikipedia

• Ceramic discharge metal-halide lamp — The ceramic discharge metal halide (CDM) lamp, mostly referred to as Ceramic Metal Halide lamp (CMH), is a relatively new source of light that is a variation of the old (high pressure) mercury vapour lamp. The discharge is contained in a ceramic… …   Wikipedia

• Fluorescent lamp — A fluorescent lamp or fluorescent tube is a gas discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor. The excited mercury atoms produce short wave ultraviolet light that then causes a phosphor to fluoresce, producing visible light.Unlike… …   Wikipedia