Meanings
nounmercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)
plural mercury-vapour lamps · alternative mercury-vapor lamp
- UKa 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
By night the carriage yard is illuminated by mercury vapour lamps on 50ft lattice steel towers remotely controlled from the diesel depot.
1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 412
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 水銀燈 /水银灯
- 水銀燈 /水银灯 (shuǐyíndēng)a gaseous discharge lamp
Finnish elohopeahöyrylamppu, elohopealamppu
- elohopeahöyrylamppua gaseous discharge lamp
- elohopealamppua gaseous discharge lamp
French lampe à vapeur de mercure
- lampe à vapeur de mercurea gaseous discharge lamp
German Quecksilberdampflampe
- Quecksilberdampflampea gaseous discharge lamp
Hungarian higanylámpa, higanygőzlámpa
- higanylámpaa gaseous discharge lamp
- higanygőzlámpaa gaseous discharge lamp
Japanese 水銀灯
- 水銀灯 (suigintō)a gaseous discharge lamp
Polish lampa rtęciowa, rtęciówka
- lampa rtęciowaa gaseous discharge lamp
- rtęciówkaa gaseous discharge lamp
Portuguese lâmpada de mercúrio, lâmpada de vapor de mercúrio
- lâmpada de mercúrioa gaseous discharge lamp
- lâmpada de vapor de mercúrioa gaseous discharge lamp
Russian рту́тная газоразря́дная ла́мпа
- рту́тная газоразря́дная ла́мпа (rtútnaja gazorazrjádnaja lámpa)a gaseous discharge lamp
Spanish lámpara de vapor de mercurio
- lámpara de vapor de mercurioa gaseous discharge lamp
Thai หลอดแสงจันทร์, หลอดไฟไอปรอท
- หลอดแสงจันทร์ (lɔ̀ɔt-sɛ̌ɛng-jan)a gaseous discharge lamp
- หลอดไฟไอปรอท (lɔ̀ɔt-fai-ai-bpà-rɔ̀ɔt)a gaseous discharge lamp
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