quartz lamp

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   a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container

   Broadermercury-vapor lamp

Questions about quartz lamp

What does quartz lamp mean?

quartz lamp means "a mercury-vapor lamp that is enclosed in a quartz container instead of a glass container".

Is quartz lamp a common word?

quartz lamp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.