balketh

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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

I'm going to introduce everyone to a hidden truth: a sodium vapor lamp and a mercury UVC lamp are the same thing with different elements in the plasma. Both contain an electric arc. We are all arguing over which set of spectral lines we prefer


balketh
@balketh

Human nature; from the grandest scales of the cosmos, down to the specifics of each atomic element and beneath, we'll always find a way to bicker about local semantics, hopefully while sharing beverages.


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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

I don't think they are available as normal lamps

But there are copper vapour lasers that can be used to produce a green beam. They run crazy hot (even at 1700 C the vapour pressure of copper is only like 0.005 mbar), but can be fairly high power