Fluorescent lights use electricity to excite mercury vapor. This produces ultraviolet light that causes a phosphor coating inside the bulb to glow.

荧光灯用电激发水银蒸气。这会生成紫外线光而使得镀在灯管内壁上的磷涂层发光.

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It was a compact fluorescent light bulb.

那是一个紧凑型荧光灯管。

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If they're shot under fluorescent light, heavy makeup doesn't help them; it just makes them look overdone.

如果她们出现在荧光灯下，浓妆并不能帮助她们，只会让她们看起来太过头了。

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Light emitting diodes, or LEDs, could work nicely as replacements for incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.

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The family is using compact fluorescent light bulbs and hanging its laundry outside to dry.

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The best-known green-home technology must surely be the compact-fluorescent light bulb, the very icon of green living.

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