Abstract:
A gas discharge tube is provided which comprises a glass tube, a coating of phosphor applied to the inner walls of the glass tube, a pair of electrodes disposed in parallel to each other along the substantial length of the glass tube, and some amounts of mercury and a neon-argon gas mixture or a neon-helium-argon gas mixture.
Abstract:
A low pressure mercury vapor fluorescent discharge lamp, having a color rendering value as high as 97 is obtainable by applying on the inner wall of the lamp a layer of a phosphor mixture comprising a basic magnesium arsenate phosphor containing 0.02 0.2 gram-atom of manganese per 6 mols of magnesium oxide, magnesium tungstate, tin-activated strontium magnesium orthophosphate and antimony-and-manganese-activated calcium halophosphate.