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'''Neon lighting''' consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. | [[File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|thumb|Neon lighting in the shape of "Ne",the symbol for the element neon.]]'''Neon lighting''' consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. | ||
Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube light is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure. | Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube light is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure. |
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Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases.
Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube light is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure.
A high potential of several thousand volts applied to the electrodes ionizes the gas in the tube, causing it to emit colored light.
The color of the light depends on the gas in the tube. Neon lights were named for neon, a noble gas which gives off a popular orange light, but other gases and chemicals are used to produce other colors, such as hydrogen (red), helium (yellow), carbon dioxide (white), and mercury (blue).
Neon tubes can be fabricated in curving artistic shapes, to form letters or pictures. They are mainly used to make dramatic, multicolored glowing signage for advertising, called neon signs.
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