high-pressure mercury vapor lamp 1

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A mercury-vapor lamp commonly used for general lighting purpose; it emits primarily in the blue and green.

  • 1.High-pressure mercury vapor (and some specially-designed metal-halide) lamps find application in molecular spectroscopy due to providing useful broadband continuum ('noise') energy at millimeter and terahertz wavelengths, owing to the high electron temperature of the arc plasma; the main UV emission line of ionized mercury (254 nm) correlates to a blackbody of T= 11,500 K.

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