"mercury-vapour lamp" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mercury-vapour lamps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)
  1. (British spelling) 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 Wikipedia link: mercury-vapor lamp Tags: UK Categories (topical): Light sources, Mercury (element) Synonyms: mercury-vapor lamp Translations (a gaseous discharge lamp): 水銀燈 (Chinese Mandarin), 水银灯 (shuǐyíndēng) (Chinese Mandarin), elohopeahöyrylamppu (Finnish), elohopealamppu (Finnish), lampe à vapeur de mercure [feminine] (French), Quecksilberdampflampe [feminine] (German), higanylámpa (Hungarian), higanygőzlámpa (Hungarian), 水銀灯 (suigintō) (alt: すいぎんとう) (Japanese), lampa rtęciowa [feminine] (Polish), rtęciówka [feminine] (Polish), lâmpada de mercúrio [feminine] (Portuguese), lâmpada de vapor de mercúrio [feminine] (Portuguese), рту́тная газоразря́дная ла́мпа (rtútnaja gazorazrjádnaja lámpa) [feminine] (Russian), lámpara de vapor de mercurio [feminine] (Spanish), หลอดแสงจันทร์ (lɔ̀ɔt-sɛ̌ɛng-jan) (Thai), หลอดไฟไอปรอท (lɔ̀ɔt-fai-ai-bpà-rɔ̀ɔt) (Thai)

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