Available in many lengths and several diameters, the tube is lined with a fluorescent phosphor. When the mercury is excited by electricity, it emits ultraviolet (UV) light, which causes the ...

The shift helps protect people and wildlife from mercury. State enforces strict ban on common household item due to its ...

Sure, you could animate some Halloween lights using a microcontroller, some random number generation and some LEDs, and if the decorations are powered by AC, you could use some relays with your ...

Signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury have agreed to ban the manufacture, import and export of straight tube fluorescent lamps by the end of 2027, paving the way for an end to ...

But the glass is much thicker and there’s a halogen gas sealed in the bulb. It allows them to burn hotter and brighter than regular incandescents. Take a fluorescent tube, form it into a bulb ...

so look for those that emit the lowest amounts of UV radiation and try to use light shields and lamp shades whenever possible. If a standard fluorescent tube lighting source is shielded by a standard ...