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Metal halide lamps provide high intensity light through an electric arc within a quartz tube containing mercury vapor and metal halide salts. Developed in the 1960s building on earlier work using halides in mercury lamps, metal halide lamps produce white light with good color rendering and efficiency. They have advantages over other lamp types for applications requiring high quality lighting like sports fields, parking lots, and street lights. Variations include smaller lamps used in flashlights and headlig
- Author
- Rodrigo Babijis
- Language
- EN