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Heat is transferred via three methods: conduction (ice cube in your hand), convection (ice cube in your drink), and radiation (light).

The Sun radiantly heats the Earth, by sending out heat as light. The "heat lamps" produce infrared radiation (largely), the food absorbs much of this light, and the temperature of the food increases until it can transfer that extra energy away.

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When a fluorescent lamp is turned on, electrons begin to travel at high speed from one cathode to the other, establishing an electric discharge or arc through the Mercury vapor. An arc of this nature, enclosed in a glass tube with internal gas pressure, produces ultraviolet energy.

This ultraviolet energy is converted into visible light by the phosphors, which have the ability to absorb the ultraviolet energy and re-radiate it at longer wavelengths that can be seen as visible light. The color of the visible light produced depends on the chemical composition of the phosphor coating on the inside of the glass tube.

Approximately 60 percent of the input energy in a typical 40 watt fluorescent lamp is converted directly into ultraviolet, with 38 percent going into heat and 2 percent into visible light. Standard phosphor changes about 21 percent of the ultraviolet into visible light with the remaining 39 percent is converted to heat.

The final output of convected and conducted heat from typical fluorescent lamps is very damaging to sensitive perishable fresh foods. It promotes the photochemical processes that contributes to discoloration, oxidation, and food borne pathogen growth and causes the surface of many products discolor, rise in temperature, dry out and become unappetizing.

This is why many supermarkets and grocery retailers install Promolux balanced spectrum low radiation lights in their food cases as it eliminates over 86% of the radiation a regular fluorescent lamp will emit, ensuring foods stay fresher longer.

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