Best Practice Guide

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Best Practice Guide Glossary

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FLUORESCENT LAMP Return to list of terms

A tubular electric lamp that is coated on its inner surface with a phosphor and that contains mercury vapor whose bombardment by electrons from the cathode provides ultraviolet light which causes the phosphor to emit visible light either of a selected color or closely approximating daylight.

Source: California Energy Commission