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Low-pressure sodium lamps only give monochromatic yellow light and so inhibit color vision at night. Single ended self-starting lamps are insulated with a mica disc and contained in a borosilicate glass gas discharge tube (arc tube) and a metal cap. [3] [4] They include the sodium-vapor lamp that is the gas-discharge lamp in street lighting. [5 ...
A very common Penning mixture of about 98–99.5% of neon with 0.5–2% argon is used in some neon lamps, especially those rated for 120 volts. The mixture is easier to ionize than either neon or argon alone, and lowers the breakdown voltage at which the tube becomes conductive and starts producing light.
The temperature of the ideal emitter that matches the color most closely is defined as the color temperature of the original visible light source. The color temperature scale describes only the color of light emitted by a light source, which may actually be at a different (and often much lower) temperature. [1] [2]
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Unsaturated mercury vapor can be used, but as it can not be replenished, the lifetime of such tubes is lower. [1] The strong dependence of vapor pressure on mercury temperature limits the environments the mercury-based tubes can operate in. In low-pressure mercury lamps, there is an optimum mercury pressure for the highest efficiency.
[3] [4] [5] In practice, light sources that approximate Planckian radiators, such as certain fluorescent or high-intensity discharge lamps, are assessed based on their CCT, which is the temperature of a Planckian radiator whose color most closely resembles that of the light source. For light sources that do not follow the Planckian distribution ...
Standard high pressure sodium lamp HP2 0.4778: 0.4158 2506 Color-enhanced high-pressure sodium lamp HP3 0.4302: 0.4075 3144 High pressure metal halide lamp HP4 0.3812: 0.3797 4002 High pressure metal halide lamp HP5 0.3776: 0.3713 4039 High pressure metal halide lamp LED-B1 0.4560: 0.4078 2733 phosphor-converted blue LED-B2 0.4357: 0.4012 2998
The sodium vapour lamp emits light at 589nm, which has precisely the energy to excite an electron of a sodium atom. If it was an atom of another element, like chlorine, shadow will not be formed. [ 18 ] [ failed verification ] When a magnetic field is applied, due to the Zeeman effect the spectral line of sodium gets split into several components.