It doesn't produce light.
mercury gets about 1 whole earth days
In natural light, Mercury is grayish, much like the earth's moon.
I would say no. My reasoning is that if incandescent bulbs have as much or more mercury than fluorescent bulbs, the fluorescent industry would be debunking all the reports of a mercury problem.Incandescent lights do not need or use mercury to operate, so there is none in them.Fluorescent lights cannot be made at all without mercury, as it is the glow of mercury ions that produces the UV light inside the fluorescent bulb to excite the phosphor coating to make visible light.
Both mercury the metal and Mercury the planet reflect light quite well.
it takes about 3-4 minutes for light to travel to mercury
Mercury is appears light orange from Earth But its surface is actually a gray color
Well, light intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the light source. Based on the lengths of the semi-major axes of the orbits of Earth and Mercury, I figure the sunlight hitting Mercury is about 6.67 times as intense as the sunlight hitting Earth, disregarding what is filtered by our atmosphere, which is probably negligible.
Without the mercury in a CFL you wouldn't have light. The ballast in a CFL supplies initial current which excites the mercury which releases photons, or light. The mercury does not produce visible light, this happens only once the light passes through the phosphor coating on the inside of the bulb.
A mercury light typically emits multiple wavelengths of light. It produces a line spectrum with several distinct wavelengths corresponding to the transitions of electrons within the mercury atoms. Typically, a mercury light will contain several prominent wavelengths in the ultraviolet and visible light ranges.
yes
it should be light enough to throw away
Incandescent heat lamps do not contain mercury. They use a tungsten filament that is heated to produce light and heat. Mercury is typically found in fluorescent and HID lamps, not incandescent ones.