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Stories about: electric discharge

How Fluorescent Lamps Work You can find them mostly anywhere today, they are highly efficient, give off a pleasant white light and, for some strange reasons, people always call them neon lights. Fluorescent lamps produce light by discharging an electrical current inside a mass of gas which becomes excited and starts emitting photon particles o... 7 June 2008 06:57 GMT How Xenon Flash Tubes Work Flash tubes are electric glow discharge lamps able to produce high intensity, incoherent, full white light spectrum bursts for small amounts of time. Flash tubes are generally used as high intensity light sources in photographic cameras, warning lights on emergency vehicles and anti-collision beacons and even as ligh... 25 April 2008 08:51 GMT How Do Plasma Lamps Work? They might have been extremely popular during the 1980's, but now you can hardly find one in any house. Personally I can't understand why, I mean they are fun to play with and produce some really cool light effects. The well known plasma lamps design was invented during the 1970's by a MIT student name... 31 January 2008 06:57 GMT