plasma lamp

English

A plasma lamp (1)

Noun

plasma lamp (plural plasma lamps)

1. A kind of gas-discharge lamp: a clear glass container, often an orb, filled with a mixture of various noble gases at low pressure, and driven by high frequency alternating current at high voltage.

   Hyponym: plasma globe

2. A type of electrodeless gas-discharge lamp energized by radio frequency.
   • 2001, Shalom Eliezer, Yaffa Eliezer, The Fourth State of Matter: An Introduction to Plasma Science, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 97:

     The conversion of energy into light is more efficient in the high density plasma devices than in the low density plasma lamps.

Translations

a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure

• French: lampe à plasma (fr) f
• German: Plasmalampe f
• Hungarian: plazmalámpa
• Portuguese: lâmpada de plasma f
• Romanian: lampă cu plasmă f
• Spanish: lámpara de plasma f

See also

• corona discharge