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  2. Fluorescent lamps and health - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury, a toxic substance. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides safety guidelines for how to clean up a broken fluorescent bulb. [17] Mercury can be harmful to children and developing fetuses, so children and pregnant women should avoid being in the area whilst a broken bulb is cleaned up. [18]

  3. Electromagnetic radiation and health - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent light bulbs and tubes internally produce ultraviolet light. Normally this is converted to visible light by the phosphor film inside a protective coating. When the film is cracked by mishandling or faulty manufacturing then UV may escape at levels that could cause sunburn or even skin cancer. [53] [54]

  4. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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    Objections more specifically relating to compact fluorescent light bulbs include the different quality of light produced by phosphor-based lamps compared to incandescent lamps [15] and that compact fluorescent light bulbs contain small amounts of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, which is especially dangerous to children and pregnant women, and ...

  5. Photosensitivity in humans - Wikipedia

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    There is evidence that compact fluorescent light can worsen the condition. With the autoimmune disease lupus, exposure to compact fluorescent lamps will induce disease activity in photosensitive SLE patients. There is evidence that actinic prurigo is worsened by compact fluorescent light. This disease affects 3.3% of the general population.

  6. Fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    The color of the light output can be adjusted by altering the ratio of the blue-emitting antimony dopant and orange-emitting manganese dopant. The color rendering ability of these older-style lamps is quite poor. Halophosphate phosphors were invented by A. H. McKeag et al. in 1942. "Natural sunshine" fluorescent light: Peaks with stars are ...

  7. Incandescent Lightbulb Regulations: What's True, What's Not - AOL

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    As of Jan. 1, 2012, any bulb that can generate the amount of light produced by a conventional 100-watt bulb, but do so with roughly 30 percent less energy, is eligible for the market. The Basics

  8. What you need to know about the incandescent light bulb ban - AOL

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    America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly. A rule issued in 2007, rolled back by the Trump administration, and updated last year by ...

  9. Phosphorescence - Wikipedia

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    In a modern, scientific sense, the phenomena can usually be classified by the three different mechanisms that produce the light, [further explanation needed] and the typical timescales during which those mechanisms emit light. Whereas fluorescent materials stop emitting light within nanoseconds (billionths of a second) after the excitation ...