• How Fluorescent Lamps Work


    You can find them mostly anywhere today, they are highly efficient, give off a pleasant white light and, for some strange reasons, people always call them neon lights. Fluorescent lamps produce light by discharging an electrical current inside a mass of gas which becomes excited and starts emitting photon particles of light. Most fluorescent lamps come in a tube-like configuration which is filled with an inert gas, usually argon, and some amounts of mercury vapor. The tube is made out of gla...

    Published : 2008-06-09 Read more

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