Halide Lamp

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A discharge lamp in which light is produced by the radiation from a mixture of a metallic vapour (for example, mercury) and the products of the dissociation of halides (for example, halides of thallium, indium or sodium).

Reference: C.I.E.

Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)

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