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   Jason Goga was espousing about 'flouresent lighting',
   on [10-08-92  21:11] to All!
 JG> In chemistry class the teacher was illustrating flouresent lighting,
 JG> and explained that the charge caused the electrons to leap into higher
 JG> energy levels, however not being able to sustain them they would fall
 JG> back down realeasing energy as light. Now I was curious, I've never
 JG> seen a flouresent light run from DC. so is it the constant returning
 JG> to 0 volts that causes the electrons to fall back down or do they do
 JG> so on their own accord?

    A flouresent lamp works this way:

        A photon of UV wavelength stirkes the phosphorescent
        coating on the tube (white stuff) the phosphor is
        exciting to a higher state and then not being able to
        maintain it losses a specific amount of energy and
        returns to it's ground state.  This produces a different
        wavelength of light WHICH in fact is ussually lower.

        The UV light is produced by a low preasure gas inside the
        tube (I can't remember what they use).  You can run a
        fourescent of of high voltage DC.  AC is used because
        it's relatively common.

                Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
                Scripted at Sat  10-10-1992  16:06:22

... No sense being pessimistic.  It wouldn't work anyway.
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