I've listed the price of all the lamps as $20, but that's really just a rough average: I paid varying amounts at various eBay auctions for these lamps, which list for a lot more from an instrument supplier. (Truth in photography: These lamps all look alike. I have just duplicated a...
I rode shotgun. Other times we went to the hardware store – not one of the huge home-improvement chain stores we all go to now but a genuine hardware and garden store
This as the demand from data centers and electrification increase, at the same time power plants like Brandon Shores are expected to retire in the near future. Currently Maryland imports about 40 percent of it's energy from other states. “We recognize that renewable energy is the future but ...
Unfortunately, the lamps all use neon as a carrier gas: You generally have to have such a carrier gas present to maintain the electric arc. Neon emits a number of very strong orange-red lines that overwhelm the color of the specific element. In a spectrometer this is no problem because ...