Sentence examples for mercury light from inspiring English sources

Crystallization begins at more positive potentials under irradiation by a low pressure mercury light.

She was a retired schoolteacher, living on Social Security, and as we discussed politics she insisted on her right to use mercury light bulbs, since Al Gore lived in a mansion and used a private jet.

Recently the machine-metaphor has found expression in the writing of Haruki Murakami, in Kafka on the Shore: "I crunch along the gravel, the mercury light beating down on me, and try to get my brain in gear.

Thus began the switch from mercury light to excimer laser light.

If not, it will have squandered one of the great opportunities of all time.; At the time, chipmakers assumed they would jump all the way from mercury light to X rays, which have smaller wavelengths than visible or ultraviolet light.

As an electrically conductive liquid, it was used in mercury switches (including home mercury light switches installed prior to 1970), tilt switches used in old fire detectors, and tilt switches in some home thermostats.

And then, suddenly, "the new octagonal-shafted aluminum poles, with their odd greenish-white mercury lights... the goosenecked, ungainly specimens... proliferated in New York City streets like ragweed".

Tucson (about 600,000 population) has over 20,000 such lights (They did anyway until a mass change-over to better lighting sources was accomplished. The local utility replaced the several thousand such mercury lights that they owned; think how many more are owned by private citizens). So the annual operating cost of those mercury fixtures in Tucson alone was over 1.4 million dollars.

Sources of incidental indoor exposure to UV rays include "basking bulbs" for reptile habitats, black lights, xenon and xenon-mercury lights (used in disinfection, curing and to simulate sunlight) and damaged fluorescent or mercury-vapor lights (where protective outer coating is chipped or broken).

"White" tuna generally contained more mercury than "light" tuna, but some light tuna contained enough that a woman of childbearing age eating less than a can a week would exceed federal recommendations for mercury consumption, the new Consumer Reports study says.

After UV illumination (10 min in air under mercury lamp light), mesoporous TiO2 films exhibited photoinduced super-hydrophilic properties with water contact angle near 0°.