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differences in the color of light will change the color's appearance as it is seen under fluorescent and incandescent.

An incandescent lamp, like the sun, produces a spectrum of light in every color in a wide band, broad enough to cover the entire visible spectrum -- and extending past it to many colors that humans can't see.

A fluorescent lamp produces a spectrum of light in a few narrower bands of color. That is why a fluorescent lamp is more energy efficient than a incandescent -- the fluorescent lamp doesn't waste energy producing photons that humans can't see.

Some materials (such as white paper) reflect all visible colors equally. They look white in almost any kind of light.

Other materials absorb some colors more strongly than other colors. They look colored in "white" incandescent light.

If we have a material that reflects most colors equally, except for a narrow band of colors, and that band is in the "dark" part of of the fluorescent spectrum -- it will look the same color as white paper. If we have another material that reflects most colors equally, except for a narrow band of colors that is in one of the bands of colors produced by a flourescent lamp -- that material will look even more deeply colored in fluorescent light than in incandescent light.

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The incandescent light bulb, or incandescent lamp, works by heating an electrical filament until it glows like a fire, and, like a fire, procuces mostly mid-spectrum light. A fluorescent style light uses high voltage energy to turn an inert gas and/or Mercury vapor into a plasma that emits ultraviolet radiation. That ultraviolet radiation is converted into visible light using phosphorus powders. When a phosphorus chemical is exposed to U.V. radiation it will fluoresce, producing a specific frequency of visible light. A wide range of phosphorus compounds is used together to produce a visible light that appears full-spectrum. Using a prism you can refract the light and see what colors of the spectrum are actually being produced.

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Why does the color of an object look different under a fluorescent lamp from the way it look under an incandescent lamp?

differences in the color of light will change the color's appearance as it is seen under fluorescent and incandescent. An incandescent lamp, like the sun, produces a spectrum of light in every color in a wide band, broad enough to cover the entire visible spectrum -- and extending past it to many colors that humans can't see. A fluorescent lamp produces a spectrum of light in a few narrower bands of color. That is why a fluorescent lamp is more energy efficient than a incandescent -- the fluorescent lamp doesn't waste energy producing photons that humans can't see. Some materials (such as white paper) reflect all visible colors equally. They look white in almost any kind of light. Other materials absorb some colors more strongly than other colors. They look colored in "white" incandescent light. If we have a material that reflects most colors equally, except for a narrow band of colors, and that band is in the "dark" part of of the fluorescent spectrum -- it will look the same color as white paper. If we have another material that reflects most colors equally, except for a narrow band of colors that is in one of the bands of colors produced by a flourescent lamp -- that material will look even more deeply colored in fluorescent light than in incandescent light.


What does 25 watt bulb mean?

It meas that the bulb uses 25 watts of electric power to run. Different types of bulb produce different amounts of light, with incandescent bulbs producing the least. A bigger proportion of the energy supplied to the compact fluorescent bulb is transferred to light and less wasted to the surroundings as heating.


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Is incandescent light a luminious object?

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