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Most light in America is provided by electric lights not oil lamps.
However there are two types of oil lamps still sometimes used (mainly for decorative purposes): chimney lamps and tiki torches.
Chimney lamps use a highly purified odorless kerosene type oil.
Tiki torches use a nonspecific petroleum distillate oil.
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Which kind of lamps have longer lifetime led lamps or incandescent light bulbs?
Of course，LED light has longer life compare to incandescent light，because its lighting principal is semiconductor Lighting，which can turn the most electricity into lighting，the average life is 50000 hours，such as LED tube light and LED floodlights.
What type of light bulbs do modern table lamps use?
Modern table lamps use all sorts of different light bulbs. Most commonly one can find standard 20 watt to 250 watt light bulbs in modern table lamps.
Where should the lamps go?
Lamps are used to bring light into a room that does not have lightening. The best place to put lights in a part of the room that is the darkest as well as a place that will light up the most of the room.
Is lighting sparks?
There are four different types of artificial lighting: Incandescent, excited gas, arc lamp and LED. We'll start with the most efficient and work our way down. LED lamps give off the least amount of light, but are the most efficient in that most of the electricity is used to create light as opposed to heat. Excited gas (such as fluorescent and neon lamps) uses a little more electricity per lumen of light, but can create an overall brighter light. Electricity is wasted in the low-current states of the AC current used to excite the gases to create the light. A disadvantage of this kind of light is that it cannot be easily dimmed. In other words, it is either on or off -- you can't turn a fluorescent bulb down to 50%. Incandescent lamps (like the ones most households use) have a thin filiment of material that burns inside a vacuum. The best thing about this kind of lamp is that it gives the most natural light, but if you've ever touched one, you can feel how much of that energy of wasted with heat. Arc lamps are the most inefficient type of lamp, but they can produce brilliant bright light. Instead of burning a filament, these lamps have a gap between two metal points in the lamp. You have to produce enough electricity for a spark to jump across this gap and maintain that spark to create the light. These lamps are used in professional lighting rigs for concerts as well as in large movie projectors for theatres. The lamps are very dangerous if handled improperly. They can contain toxic gases like mercury, and can explode like a hand grenade if not installed correctly. So the answer to your question is "Sometimes yes, sometimes no." Arc lamps create light through sparks, but most household lamps are actually burning.
I know what floor lamp is and what's its use but in your point what are floor lamps?
Floor lamps are self-supporting lighting fixtures often used as reading lamps or auxiliary light sources in a living room or office space. Most floor lamps use a solid base for support, with a centralized pole holding the individual light fixtures in place.
How does light emit?
Gases emits light. When an electric current is passed through a gas, the gas emits light. For ex. Fluorescent lamps, neon lamps. In case of sun, most of the photons are released from the surface of the sun with wavelength 400 and 700nm, so we are able to see light that the sun emits.
Why is only one high beam light work when turned on?
Most likely your high beam filament (on dual-beam lamps) or your high beam bulb (on single-beam lamps where there are two lamps for low beam and high beam) is most likely burnt out. See sources and related links below for more information on headlight lamps.
Which kind of lamp have longer lifetime LED lamps or incandescent bulb?
Of course，LED light has longer life compare to incandescent light，because its lighting principal is semiconductor Lighting，which can turn the most electricity into lighting，the average life is 50000 hours，such as LED tube light and LED floodlights.
Why is lightning important?
lighting is an important consideration. The wrong kind of lighting not only strains your eyes, it causes headaches, back aches, and neck strain. Most people have too much room light, which creates glare on the screen. But they don't have enough light on their desk where they need it to read documents. Adjustable desktop lamps can help you direct the light to where you need it most.
What is the difference between a UV light bulb and a black light?
A black light is a UV emitting bulb. There are other types of UV bulbs, but most have very specific uses, such as: bug lights, tanning bed lamps, drying lamps for lithographic applications and printing, and medical diagnosis. All lamps--incandescent, fluorescent, mercury vapor, tungsten, etc.-- emit some range of UV light, so could be considered UV lamps, but that is not their specific purpose, and the amounts or levels vary widely.
What was the most popular thing you needed to have in the seventies?
Mood rings were a must have, lava lamps, black light posters are a few.
What kind of seafood do Americans eat the most?
Tuna fish.
