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Element used in strobe lamps?
The element magnesium is used in photographic flashbulbs as well as in pyrotechnic displays. The element tungsten is used in both fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs.
What alkali metal is used in street lights?
Sodium (chem symbol = Na) Mercury vapor is also used in street lights. Low pressure sodium vapor street lights are amber/yellow in color, high pressure sodium lights are white and mercury vapor lights glow blueish white.
What is one way in which you can identify the elements that are used in various street lights?
By the colour of the light that they emit. Sodium vapour lamps produce yellow/orange light while Mercury vapour lamps produce white light.
Why is the street light yellow not white?
They are yellow because they are sodium lamps, using sodium vapor. They are very efficient in terms of visible light output per watt.
Why sodium vapours lamps are used as street light instead of simple white tube lights?
Sodium lighting is more efficient to run than white lights, and it gives an even light with less glare.
Why are sodium vapour lamps used as street lights instead of simple white tube lights?
Sodium lighting is more efficient to run than white lights, and it gives an even light with less glare.
Why sodium vapuor lamps are used as street lights instead of simple white tube lights?
High pressure sodium lamps take a while to fully light up, however they are very energy efficient and save the council money.
Heating a white substance produces a vapor and black material Was the substance an element or a compound?
compound as it decomposed into two separate things.
When were street lights invented?
[edited after some idiot wrote the wrong answer]The Greeks and Romans first used lanterns in the street, which burnt oil.However, the first electric street lamps were invented by the Russian, Pavel Yablochkov in 1875. It was powered by an alternating current source, just the same as today's high pressure sodium bulbs use.The peak of technology today uses LEDs which give off a white light, rather than the orange glow of the Sodium lamps. These LED lamps run on DC power.
What is the difference between daylight fluorescent and cool white fluorescent?
Daylight Fluorescent lamps have bluish-white illuminance, whereas coolwhite fluorescent lamps have yellowish-white illuminance.
Where can you buy white table lamps?
You can purchase white table lamps online from retailer websites or from sites such as Ebay or Amazon. Alternatively, you can buy them from homeware stores such as Ikea.
What media element is not used by the Wall Street Journal but is commonly used by newspaper?
One common media element used by newspapers but not by the Wall Street Journal is color photographs. The Wall Street Journal traditionally uses black and white photographs in its print edition to maintain a more serious and professional tone.
