Why are florescent light bulbs white?
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rarhodes001 got it completely wrong!
threeonspeed must be.
The color of a floresacent light is controlled by the phospher on the inside of the glass. Florescent lights have mercury gas inside. Electricity flowing through this gas produces UV light. The UV light excites the phospher and creates white light. Other colors are possible. There is UV, blue, pink, daylight, softwhite, coolwhite, etc. All, except UV, have different phosphers.
The lights are called floreascent because the phospher floresces.
It has to do with the thermal reaction with the type of fuse that is in the light bulbs. It also has to do with gas inside of them too. I could go into a long drawn-out conversation about it. But I think I'll keep it short and simple.
it's florescent gas inside the bulb, not florescent in color!!
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