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The high pressure mercury vapour discharge plays an important part nowadays in lighting and also in certain irradiation applications such as in medicine and in blue-printing. For this reason we have thought it worthwhile to sun. up in this book the properties of the discharge, the types of lamps available and the various applications.
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© 1965 N. V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
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Elenbaas, W. (1965). Introduction. In: Elenbaas, W. (eds) High Pressure Mercury Vapour Lamps and Their Applications. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81628-6_1
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