metal-halide lamp 1

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an electric lamp that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides.

  • 1.Since a metal-halide lamp contains gases at a significant high pressure, failure of the arc tube is inevitably a violent event.

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