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  2. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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    French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat goldmercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.

  3. Mercury glass - Wikipedia

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    Mercury glass (or silvered glass) is glass that was blown double walled, then silvered between the layers with a liquid silvering solution, and sealed. Although mercury was originally used to provide the reflective coating for mirrors, elemental mercury was never used to create tableware.

  4. Mercury silvering - Wikipedia

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    French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (born 1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815). Mercury silvering or fire gilding is a silvering technique for applying a thin layer of precious metal such as silver or gold (mercury gilding) to a base metal object.

  5. History of street lighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, the annual operating cost for the average incandescent lamp was $280; for mercury vapor lamps, it was $128; and for low-pressure sodium vapor lamps, it was $60 a year. [1] Meanwhile, high-pressure sodium vapor lamps cost only $44 a year to operate, with a standard life expectancy of 15,000 hours, which also helped to lower labor and ...

  6. Silvering - Wikipedia

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    Silvering on the inside of a glass test tube Silvering is the chemical process of coating a non-conductive substrate such as glass with a reflective substance, to produce a mirror . While the metal is often silver , the term is used for the application of any reflective metal.

  7. 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]

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