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Flash lamps

Term · Chemistry · MLC-T-CHM-004473

Gas-discharge lamps that produce brief, intense pulses of broad-spectrum light by passing a high-current electrical discharge through an inert gas. The gas, such as xenon or krypton, is contained in a sealed tube and ionizes to form a plasma when the current is applied. These lamps are used as excitation sources in fluorescence and phosphorescence spectroscopy.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CHM-004473
FieldChemistry
SubjectAnalytical Chemistry
ReferencesPAC, 1984, 56, 231. 'Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-Part VI: molecular luminescence spectroscopy' on page 238 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198456020231)
See alsoInert gas
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