Fluorescent Mercury Discharge Lamp

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2-3-380

A high pressure mercury lamp in which the light is produced partly by the mercury vapour and partly by a layer of fluorescent material excited by the ultra-violet radiation of the discharge .

Reference: C.I.E.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)