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mercury-vapor lamp

mercury-vapor lamp is the alternative spelling of mercury-vapour lamp.

Meaning of mercury-vapour lamp

Noun

mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)

  1. (UK) a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet radiation
    • By night the carriage yard is illuminated by mercury vapour lamps on 50ft lattice steel towers remotely controlled from the diesel depot.1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412

Forms of mercury-vapor lamp

pluralmercury-vapor lamps

Questions about mercury-vapor lamp

What is mercury-vapor lamp the alternative spelling of?
Mercury-vapor lamp is the alternative spelling of mercury-vapour lamp.

Words near mercury-vapor lamp in the dictionary

  1. mercury switch
  2. mercury switches
  3. Mercury's staff
  4. Mercury's staffs
  5. mercury(I) iodide
  6. mercury-vapor lamp
  7. mercury-vapor lamps
  8. mercury-vapour lamp
  9. mercury-vapour lamps
  10. mercurying
  11. mercuryless

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