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They are made with fluorescent tubes, bent and compacted to the size of a regular lightbulb. The inside of the tubes is filled with fluorescent gas and phosphor. Electricity passes into the tube and interacts with the gas to make ultraviolet rays and theseinteract with the phosphor and cause it to glow.

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