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2. Floodlight - Wikipedia

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   Floodlights Association football field at a sports center illuminated with floodlights.. A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light.It can provide functional area lighting [1] for travel-ways, parking, entrances, work areas, and sporting venues to enable visibility adequate for safe task performance, ornamental lighting for advertising, façades, monuments, or support ...

3. Halogen lamp - Wikipedia

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   Halogen floodlights for outdoor lighting systems as well as for watercraft are also manufactured for commercial and recreational use. They are now also used in desktop lamps. Tungsten-halogen lamps are frequently used as a near-infrared light source in Infrared spectroscopy.

4. Metal-halide lamp - Wikipedia

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   Like other gas-discharge lamps such as the very-similar mercury-vapor lamps, metal-halide lamps produce light by ionizing a mixture of gases in an electric arc.In a metal-halide lamp, the compact arc tube contains a mixture of argon or xenon, mercury, and a variety of metal halides, such as sodium iodide and scandium iodide. [7]

5. Lighting - Wikipedia

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   The next major drop in price came about in the 1880s with the introduction of electric lighting in the form of arc lights for large space and street lighting, followed by incandescent light bulb-based utilities for indoor and outdoor lighting. [3] [5] Over time, electric lighting became ubiquitous in developed countries. [6]

6. Yard light - Wikipedia

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   Yard light-garden lantern with multiple lamps.. A yard light or garden lantern is a free standing exterior light fixture in gardens and landscaped settings. They are usually illuminated by electricity, but occasionally natural gas, and are usually placed near an outdoor path or driveway to provide visibility in dark areas or areas that become dark at certain times.

7. High-intensity discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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   HID lamps are typically used when high levels of light over large areas are required, and when energy efficiency and/or light intensity are desired. These areas include gymnasiums, large public areas, warehouses, movie theatres, football stadiums, [9] outdoor activity areas, roadways, parking lots, and pathways. More recently, HID lamps have ...