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What do the phosphors inside fluorescent bulbs absorb to create a glow?
Ultraviolet Radiation.
When is a mineral is discribed as fluorescent?
A mineral is described as a fluorescent when light from ultraviolet lamps reacts with the chemicals of a mineral and causes the mineral to glow; this is called fluorescence.
Why does incandescent light not glow on material?
Incandescent light bulbs do not emit much Ultraviolet light. Strip lights and compact fluorescent low energy light bulbs do. The whiteners added to white fabrics react to UV light and glow due to fluorescence.
What is the name of those swirly light bulbs?
They are known as CFL bulbs. It stands for Compact Fluorescent Lamps.
Electromagnetic radiation causes certain substanced to fluoresce?
Yes. UV radiation causes phosphor to fluoresce in fluorescent light bulbs.
Which is more efficient the fluorescent bulbs or the incandecent bulbs?
Fluorescent bulb is the more efficient one as compared to incandescent bulbs.
What store sells the cheapest fluorescent bulbs?
Fluorescent bulbs can be purchased at most home improvement stores. Some examples are Lowe's and Home Depot. Buying fluorescent bulbs in bulk is the cheapest way to buy the bulbs.
Lights that glow when an electric current causes ultraviolet waves to strike a coating inside a tube are called?
fluorescent lights
Is fluorescent light produced by heat?
Not in the way that an incandescent bulb does. A fluorescent lamp uses electricity to excite the particles of mercury vapor in the tube. This excited gas causes a phosphor to glow.
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.
Do fluorescent markers glow under a black light?
Yes of course, that is why they are fluorescent.
Do fluorescent bulbs get hot?
Yes but not as much as incandiscent bulbs
