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2. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   Many mini sets use standard 3 mm dome-shaped LEDs, and have a plastic cover over them to provide refraction, which is an important step in diffusing the unidirectional light they cast. These covers come in C5, C6, and C7 sizes (5 ⁄ 8, 3 ⁄ 4, and 7 ⁄ 8-inch, or 16, 19, and 22 mm diameters, respectively) pointed "strawberries", G12 (12mm or ...

3. Light fixture - Wikipedia

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   High- and low-bay lighting – typically used for general lighting for industrial buildings and often big-box stores. Strip lights or Industrial lighting – often long lines of fluorescent lamps used in a warehouse or factory. A decorative outdoor lamp at Leeds Town Hall A garden solar lamp is an example of landscape lighting

4. Architectural lighting design - Wikipedia

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   The history of electric light is well documented, [11] and with the developments in lighting technology the profession of lighting developed alongside it. The development of high-efficiency, low-cost fluorescent lamps led to a reliance on electric light and a uniform blanket approach to lighting, but the energy crisis of the 1970s required more design consideration and reinvigorated the use of ...

5. Sconce (light fixture) - Wikipedia

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   A sconce or wall light is a decorative light fixture that is mounted to a wall. [1] The sconce is a very old form of fixture, historically used with candles and oil lamps . They can provide general room lighting, and are common in hallways and corridors, but they may be mostly decorative. [ 1 ]

6. Fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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   A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric current in the gas excites mercury vapor, to produce ultraviolet and make a phosphor coating in the lamp glow.

7. Neon lighting - Wikipedia

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   Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light . A neon tube is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure.