Sodium vapor lights

Another common use is as a liquid contact in electrical silent switches. Also, mercury-vapor produces the bluish-white light of streedights. However, mercury-vapor hghts now are being replaced by sodium-vapor lights that produce a yellowish-white hght. Mercury is used in thermometers and barometers, to coat mirrors, and in the electronics industry and several other industries. 

Sodium vapor lamps, in use for many years, continue to be improved, both with respect to efficiency and color of emitted light. These lamps, however, contain only a few milligrams of sodium each. 

Fireworks displays are fascinating to watch. Neon lights and sodium vapor lamps can transform the skyline of a city with their brilliant colors. The eerie phenomenon of the aurora borealis is an unforgettable experience when you see it for the first time. All of these events relate to the generation of light and its transmission through space. 

Sodium vapor lamps, used for public lighting, emit yellow light of wavelength 589 nm. How much energy is emitted by... 

A sodium-vapor street lamp emits yellow light at wavelength A — 589 nm. What is the energy change for a sodium atom involved in this emission How much energy is released per mole of sodium atoms ... 

Sodium vapor lamps emit yellow light. 

Light of wavelength 589 nanometers falls in the yellow portion of the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The characteristic yellow glow of sodium vapor lamps used to illuminate many highways results from this particular emission. 

Use well-passivated stainless steel vessels use only sodium vapor lamps or yellow light in the manufacturing area. Avoid forming foam during transfer of liquids. 

How might you distinguish a sodium-vapor street light from a mercury-vapor street light ... 

Technical limits of exitance also impose minima for the dimensions of medium-pressure light sources (length of arc, length and diameter of bulb), for example, medium-pressure (doped) mercury arcs, high-pressure sodium vapor lamps, and incandescent lamps. 

Exercise 9-3 Calculate the energy in kcal mole-1 that corresponds to the absorption of 1 einstein of light of 589.3 nm (sodium D line) by sodium vapor. Explain how this absorption of light by sodium vapor may have chemical utility. 

Optical rotations usually are measured at just one wavelength, namely 589.3 nm, simply because sodium-vapor lamps provide an especially convenient source of monochromatic light. Measurements at other wavelengths are less easily made without specialized instruments, with which relatively few laboratories are currently equipped. Nevertheless, much information has been obtained about structure, conformation, and configuration of organic compounds from measurements of optical rotation as a function of wavelength (i.e., optical rotatory dispersion). 

Light-induced current in sodium vapor, Zhumcd Eksperimental noi i... 

Because of the dependencies noted above, the experimentally measured a is always converted to and expressed as the specific rotation [a]J, where the super- and subscripts refer, respectively, to the temperature and the wavelength of the light (D referring to the D lines of sodium vapor, 589.2 nm). 

Abbe-Type Refractometer Use an instrument with fourth decimal place accuracy that can be placed in a nearly horizontal position for measurement of the refractive index of solids. An Amici-type compensating prism for achromatiza-tion is necessary unless a sodium vapor lamp is used as a light source. 

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