It’s pretty common stuff, seen commercially in everything from mercury vapor lamps to microbial sterilization. It’s the latter use that piqued [Justin]’s interest and resulted in a solid ...

Fluorescent lamps are high-efficiency lamps that use electrical discharge through low-pressure mercury vapor to produce ultraviolet (UV) energy, which is then transformed into visible light. The UV ...

Description: USHIO produces standard and custom UV Emitters. Our production facility is designed to meet specific customer requirements to produce customized one-off lamps, as well as achieve ...

Dalhousie researchers and their industrial partners have piloted the world’s first municipal-scale UV LED reactor for wastewater treatment, a groundbreaking innovation that has set the stage for a ...

Networked public lighting: Lighting technology has experienced a revolution in recent years as LEDs replace traditional light sources. Although the move from sodium and mercury vapor lamps to LED has ...

What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful colors offered by vapor discharge lamps, like the pink or orange of sodium or the ...

The narrow wedge of the zodiacal light (left) reaches nearly to the Milky Way (right) on Nov. 1 from near Kenton, Oklahoma. The zodiacal light stands high in the eastern sky this time of year but ...

To simplify it, we’ve included information, pros, and cons about the main types of artificial grow lights. Fluorescent lights produce light when an electrical current passes through mercury vapor.

Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are the squiggly light bulbs ... But a broken CFL bulb or fluorescent tube can expose you to mercury vapor! The EPA recommends taking these steps if a bulb is ...