mercury-vapour lamp
English
Alternative forms
Noun
mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)
- (British spelling) 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
- 1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412:
- By night the carriage yard is illuminated by mercury vapour lamps on 50ft lattice steel towers remotely controlled from the diesel depot.
Translations
a gaseous discharge lamp
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