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arc lamp

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a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes

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arc-lamp

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Applications Ionized deuterium in a fusor reactor giving off its characteristic pinkish-red glow Emission spectrum of an ultraviolet deuterium arc lamp Deuterium has a number of commercial and scientific uses. Source: Internet

Employing a battery of 2,000 elements of a voltaic pile and charcoal enclosed in a vacuum, Davy gave the first public demonstration of the electric arc lamp in 1809. Source: Internet

The use of deuterium HCL is preferable compared to an arc lamp due to the better fit of the image of the former lamp with that of the analyte HCL. Source: Internet

It was also shown to 700 who attended a meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne on 3 February 1879. citation These lamps used a carbon rod from an arc lamp rather than a slender filament. Source: Internet

Optical properties Cermax xenon arc lamp with synthetic sapphire output window Optically transparent materials focus on the response of a material to incoming lightwaves of a range of wavelengths. Source: Internet

The core operating principle is much the same as the carbon arc lamp, but the term 'arc lamp' is normally used to refer to carbon arc lamps, with more modern types of gas discharge lamp normally called discharge lamps. Source: Internet

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