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| Filename: | Philips_HP_Mercury_Vapour_Spectral_Lamp.jpg |
| Album name: | Paul / Special Application |
| Keywords: | 12w / Philips / Mercury / Hg / Spectral / High Pressure |
| Manufacturer: | Philips |
| Power Consumption: | 12w |
| Working Voltage: | 14v - 400v ignition |
| Circuit Type: | Dedicated power supply or SOX Leak transformer |
| Comments: | Spectral lamps find a home in laboratory applications where they are commonly employed as stable, high quality sources of discrete spectral lines. Atomic spectra were originally produced by creating an arc between electrodes fabricated of the metal to be studied, or by sprinkling a powdered salt into a gas flame. Both methods produce somewhat unstable results and require constant attention. In the 1940s a range of electric discharge lamps was developed to supersede these crude methods, and delivered much more stable results by virtue of the high purity and constant output.
Three lamps make up the group containing Alkali Metals in the Philips series. These are Sodium, Rubidium and Caesium, although production of the latter was discontinued in the 1970s due to lack of demand. Caesium radiates so many spectral lines that it is of little value owing to the difficulty of identifying them individually in all but the most professional equipment. The construction of the discharge tubes is based upon the design of Low Pressure Sodium lamps for general illumination purposes. The glass is of the 2-ply borate lined type which was developed for its excellent resistance to hot sodium vapour - a property it also exhibits against the other alkali metals. Sometimes a small dimple is included near the centre of the tube to act as a cold spot, and reduce the tendency for the metal to migrate.
The electrode assemblies in this family are also based on low pressure sodium lamps. A triple coil of black tungsten wire is wound into a beehive shaped hollow cathode, the spaces between the coils being filled with an emissive compound of barium, strontium and calcium oxides. The outer envelopesare evacuated for thermal insulation. |
| Country Of Origin: | Holland |
| Filesize: | 979 KiB |
| Date added: | Mar 30, 2020 |
| Dimensions: | 1200 x 1600 pixels |
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