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  2. Liter of Light - Wikipedia

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    Liter of Light Bangladesh was started by Shanjidul Alam Seban Shaan under Lights Foundation in 2015 in Chittagong. [14] [15] They made a local version of the bottle light called 'Botol Bati', which costs around $2–2.50 USD and lasts for 4–5 years. They aim to spread awareness of bottle lights to remote areas by training local school students.

  3. Light tube - Wikipedia

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    Multiple light tubes are often moulded from a single piece of plastic, permitting easy device assembly since the long thin light tubes are all part of a single rigid component that snaps into place. Light tube indicators make electronics cheaper to manufacture since the old way would be to mount a tiny lamp into a small socket directly behind ...

  4. Crossbow - Wikipedia

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    21st-century hunting compound crossbow. A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a prod, mounted horizontally on a main frame called a tiller, which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long gun. Crossbows shoot arrow-like projectiles called bolts or quarrels.

  5. Tritium radioluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Radioluminescent keychains. Tritium lighting is made using glass tubes with a phosphor layer in them and tritium gas inside the tube. Such a tube is known as a "gaseous tritium light source" (GTLS), or beta light (since the tritium undergoes beta decay), or tritium lamp.

  6. High-intensity discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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    High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube. [1] This tube is filled with noble gas and often also contains suitable metal or metal salts.

  7. List of lights - Wikipedia

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    The front cover of a List of Lights volume. A list of lights is a publication describing lighthouses and other aids to maritime navigation. Most such lists are published by national hydrographic offices. Some nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States, publish lists that cover the whole world in many volumes. Other nations ...

  8. Gas-discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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    A flicker light bulb, flicker flame light bulb or flicker glow lamp is a gas-discharge lamp which produces light by ionizing a gas, usually neon mixed with helium and a small amount of nitrogen gas, by an electric current passing through two flame shaped electrode screens coated with partially decomposed barium azide. The ionized gas moves ...

  9. Bullet-shooting crossbow - Wikipedia

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    A bullet-shooting crossbow, also known as prodd, [1] pelletbow, ballester, stone bow, or rock-throwing crossbow, is a modified version of the classic crossbow. The bow was usually constructed with wood or steel, depending on the preference.