He holds the chain by one end and the gleaming gold disc rotates slowly, catching the light of the fluorescent bulbs.
他手抓着链子末端,让闪亮的金色圆盘缓缓转动,反射着日光灯的亮光。
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I have fluorescent bulbs in my home.
我家里有荧光灯泡。
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Most Americans use regular light bulbs that also use a lot of energy, but people are now realizing that they should use " fluorescent" bulbs, which is a type of light bulb that uses less energy.
A fluorescent lamp or a fluorescent tube is a low pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric current in the gas excites mercury vapor which produces short-wave ultraviolet light that then causes a phosphor coating on the inside of the lamp to glow. A fluorescent lamp converts electrical energy into useful light much more efficiently than incandescent lamps. The typical luminous efficacy of fluorescent lighting systems is 50–100 lumens per watt, several times the efficacy of incandescent bulbs with comparable light output.