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How does a fluorescent light fitting operate?
mercury
What element is found in fluorescent light fixtures?
Mercury
What element is in fluorescent light tubes?
mercury vapor
Name the metal contained in broken fluorescent bulb's tube lights and dead batteries?
mercury
What element is found in fluorescent light bulbs?
Mercury Vapor
What element is quicksilver used in fluorescent light bulbs?
mercury
Is mercury used for the filament in light bulbs?
No, not in the filament. You are probably thinking of compact fluorescent light bulbs, which do contain mercury.
Do incandescent light bulbs have more mercury in them than fluorescent?
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.
How many atoms of mercury are in a light bulb?
Compact fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury. (For that reason, it is important to be very careful with a broken compact fluorescent bulb, because mercury is highly toxic.) Most other kinds of light bulbs do not contain any significant amount of mercury.
Why are compact fluorescent light bulbs bad?
Older CFBs contained mercury. However, today's bulbs contain little, if any, mercury. Buying today's bulbs is a good choice, as they produce the same amount of light as an incandescent bulb, but yet uses a fraction of the energy.
What is the fluid in a fluorescent light bulb?
In a fluorescent light bulb there is usually a drop of mercury. That mercury vaporizes as the bulb warms up and it becomes gaseous, enhancing the electron interaction through the bulb, making it brighter.
How a fluorescent light bulb works?
Fluorescent light bulbs have a gas inside of them called Mercury. The way that the light bulb works is that it uses electricity to "excite" the mercury atoms. This causes the mercury atoms to give of short wave ultraviolet light. this causes a phosphor which is any substance that can illuminate to fluoresce or emit light.
