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Definition
a type of lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, producing short-wave ultraviolet light
- 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
- 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
There are no more uses of "fluorescent light" in The Glass Castle.
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