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plasma lamp en · NOUN

Meanings

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.
2. A type of electrodeless gas-discharge lamp energized by radio frequency.
   • The conversion of energy into light is more efficient in the high density plasma devices than in the low density plasma lamps. 2001, Shalom Eliezer, Yaffa Eliezer, The Fourth State of Matter: An Introduction to Plasma Science, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 97:

Forms

Hyponyms

plasma globe

Relateds

corona discharge

Translations (7)

ro lampă cu plasmă (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure) · de Plasmalampe (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure) · hu plazmalámpa (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure) · pt lâmpada de plasma (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure) · es lámpara de plasma (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure) · pl lampa plazmowa (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure) · fr lampe à plasma (a clear glass container, filled with a mixture of various gases at low pressure)