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2. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   Incandescent light bulbs have been commonly used in holiday lights until recently. These lights produce a broad-spectrum white light, and are colored by coating the glass envelope with a translucent paint which acts as a color filter. Some early Japanese-made lamps used colored glass. [1]

3. UV-B lamps - Wikipedia

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   In contrast, fluorescent UVB lamps come in two types: broadband (or wideband) and narrowband. Broadband UVB lamps have a peak wavelength of 306 nanometers. Since only a small portion of their spectrum falls near the optimal 297 nanometers, these lamps require a higher dose of 0.5 joules per square centimeter.

4. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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   The displays utilize Christmas lights in many ways, including decking towering Christmas trees in public squares, street trees and park trees, adorning lampposts and other such structures, decorating significant buildings such as town halls and department stores, and lighting up popular tourist attractions such as the Eiffel Tower and the ...

5. Blacklight - Wikipedia

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   A blacklight, also called a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave ultraviolet light and very little visible light. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] One type of lamp has a violet filter material, either on the bulb or in a separate glass filter in the lamp housing, which blocks most visible light and allows through UV ...

6. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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   60 W incandescent light bulb with energy efficiency class E Equivalent 42 W halogen incandescent light bulb with efficiency class C Compact fluorescent lamp LED lamp. Various governments have passed legislation to phase out manufacturing or importation of incandescent light bulbs for general lighting in favor of more energy-efficient alternatives.

7. The holidays are coming and experts say Americans will be ...

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   There are 147 million housing units in the U.S., of which 86.6 million are owner-occupied and 34 million of which are mortgage-free.Of those carrying mortgage debt, almost all have fixed-rate ...