Both Uses of
fluorescent light
in
The Glass Castle
- Banks of fluorescent lights hung down eighteen inches above the slanted, glass-topped desks where men wearing green eyeshades conferred over stacks of copy and photographs.†
p. 203.9
- Becker's Jewel Box was a fancy store, the kind of place I never had occasion to go into, with a humming air conditioner and buzzing fluorescent lights.†
p. 214.9 *
Definition:
a type of lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, producing short-wave ultraviolet light