mercury-vapour lamp

English

Alternative forms

• mercury-vapor lamp

Noun

mercury-vapour lamp (plural mercury-vapour lamps)

1. 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／水银灯 (zh), 水银灯 (zh) (shuǐyíndēng)

• Finnish: elohopeahöyrylamppu, elohopealamppu
• French: lampe à vapeur de mercure f
• German: Quecksilberdampflampe (de) f
• Hungarian: higanylámpa, higanygőzlámpa
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• 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