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incandescent light globe

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

The incandescent light globe produces light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glows. The hot filament is protected from oxidation in the air with a glass enclosure that ...

electric lights

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

Electric lights are a convenient and economic form of artificial lighting which provide increased comfort, safety and efficiency. Most electric lighting is powered by centrally-generated electric ...

fluorescent lamp

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

A fluorescent lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor. The excited mercury atoms produce short-wave ultraviolet light that then causes a phosphor to fluoresce, ...

smart LED bulb

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

An intelligent LED light bulb that supports hi-tech features such as changing colors and turning on or off when the user arrives. These geofencing features are controlled by a computer program that ...

halogen lamp

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

A halogen lamp is an incandescent lamp with a filament that is surrounded by halogen gases, such as iodine or bromine. Halogen gases allow the filaments to be operated at higher temperatures and ...

incandescent lamp

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

A light source that generates light utilizing a thin filament wire (usually of tungsten) heated to white heat by an electric current passing through it.

PAR lamp

Lights & lighting; Lighting bulbs & tubes

PAR is an acronym for parabolic aluminized reflector. A PAR lamp, which may utilize either an incandescent filament, a halogen filament tube or a HID arc tube, is a precision pressed-glass reflector ...

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