mercury-vapour lamp

English

Alternative forms

mercury-vapor lamp

Noun

mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)

a gaseous discharge lamp in which the arc discharge takes place in mercury vapour; used for highway illumination and as an industrial source of ultraviolet radiation

Translations

a gaseous discharge lamp

Chinese:
Mandarin: 水銀燈 (zh), 水银灯 (zh) (shuǐyíndēng)
Finnish: elohopeahöyrylamppu, elohopealamppu
French: lampe à vapeur de mercure f
German: Quecksilberdampflampe (de) f
Hungarian: higanylámpa, higanygőzlámpa

Japanese: 水銀灯 (すいぎんとう, suigintō)
Polish: wysokociśnieniowa lampa rtęciowa f, rtęciówka f
Portuguese: lâmpada de mercúrio f, lâmpada de vapor de mercúrio f
Russian: рту́тная газоразря́дная ла́мпа f (rtútnaja gazorazrjádnaja lámpa)
Spanish: lámpara de vapor de mercurio f

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