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  2. Torchère - Wikipedia

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    Today, torchère lamps use fluorescent, halogen, or LED light bulbs. Adjusting the pulse-width modulation in the electronic ballast can allow the fluorescent torchères to be dimmed. Halogen torchères usually came with a simple switch. Some more expensive models have a TRIAC dimmer circuit built into the stem. Early lamps with 300W bulbs ...

  3. Accent lighting - Wikipedia

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    Accent lighting focuses light on a particular area or object. [1] It is often used to highlight art or other artifacts. [2] Common types of accent lights include wall sconces, floodlights, recessed lights, torchère lamps, or track lighting. The brighter light from the accent lamp creates visual interest to a room.

  4. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.. Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.

  5. Tritium radioluminescence - Wikipedia

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    Tritium is the only radiation source used in radioluminescent light sources today due to its low radiological toxicity and commercial availability. [3] Various preparations of the phosphor compound can be used to produce different colors of light. For example, doping zinc sulfide phosphor with different metals can change the emission wavelength ...

  6. History of street lighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    High-pressure sodium lamps produced a distinct "yellow/orangeish light", [14] brighter than mercury vapor light, which has been described as a "harsh metallic blue" in hue. [15] During the OPEC oil embargo , Mayor Richard J. Daley announced a plan to make Chicago "the first large U.S. city to have sodium vapor lamps on all residential streets ...

  7. 3 Winter Sleep Problems & How to Fix Them - AOL

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    Look for a light therapy box that provides 10,000 lux of light exposure, turn it on within the first hour of waking up, and use it for 20 to 30 minutes. Dry air. Bye, bye moisture. Winter air is ...