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GLOW TUBE [10 records]

Record 1 2018-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lighting
DEF

A plastic tube containing two chemicals which when combined(by bending the tube) glow by chemical luminescence.

Key term(s)
  • lightstick
  • glowstick

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éclairage
OBS

chimioluminescent : phénomène de luminescence lié à certaines réactions chimiques, notamment à des oxydoréductions.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
OBS

glow indicator tube : term officially approved by the Electronics and Telecommunications Terminology Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)
OBS

tube indicateur à luminescence : terme uniformisé par le Comité d’uniformisation des termes de l’électronique et des télécommunications (CUTEL).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
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Record 3 2011-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
DEF

A gas discharge in an electronic tube with a cold cathode from which the electrons are released and which results in a luminous glow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
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Record 4 2011-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
DEF

An electron tube in which neon is ionized by electric current to produce a luminous red glow discharge(used in outdoor ad signs).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
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Record 5 2011-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
DEF

A gas tube that depends for its operation on the properties of a glow discharge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)
DEF

Tube à gaz dans lequel le courant requis est celui d'une décharge luminescente.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
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Record 6 2011-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
  • Vacuum Tubes (Electronics)
DEF

An abrupt change in the tube voltage drop of a glow discharge tube during operation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
  • Tubes et lampes (Électronique)
DEF

Variation brusque de la chute de tension d'un tube à décharge luminescente pendant son fonctionnement.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
  • Tubos de vacío (Electrónica)
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Record 7 2001-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Currents
  • Optics
  • Lamps
CONT

Classical DC(direct current) electrical discharge tube. In the glow discharge regime(10^14 to 5x10^18 charged particles/m^3, 10^4 to 5x10^4 K) the plasma is luminous due to excitation collisions by accelerated electrons. At high current densities the high heat load on the cathode triggers electron emission and the discharge changes to the highly luminous arc regime(10^20 to 10^25 charged particles/m^3, 2x10^3 to 10^5 K).

OBS

As the current and voltage increase, the cathode current density also increases, ultimately heating the cathode and causing incandescence and thermionic emission. Once the cathode is hot enough to emit electrons thermionically, the discharge will change to an arc regime.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courants (Électrocinétique)
  • Optique
  • Lampes
CONT

Dessiccation de l'air. Il est indispensable que l'air d'alimentation de l'ozoneur soit très sec, en effet, du fait de la présence de vapeur d'eau, il se produit un abaissement de la valeur de la constante diélectrique du milieu gazeux, ce qui peut entraîner à la limite le passage du régime d'effluve à un régime d'arc; avec pour conséquence la détérioration plus ou moins rapide des électrodes.

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
CONT

Photoionization detector... consists of a chamber into which gases suitable for the discharge such as helium, argon, nitrogen, or hydrogen are introduced through [a] tube which serves as the cathode for the discharge. The ultraviolet radiation or glow discharge in the hollow cathode, maintained by a small current between the cathode and discharge anode, is sufficiently energetic to ionize components in the carrier gas effluent entering through the tube, the collecting electrode(anode) for the ions liberated within the chamber enclosed by the second cathode.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
CONT

Une version commerciale de ce détecteur est apparue récemment sur le marché, il est composé d'une lampe UV [détecteur à photoionisation] scellée qui émet un rayonnement à 121,6nm (10,2 eV) à travers une fenêtre en fluorure de magnésium. Si le soluté passant dans ce détecteur a un potentiel d'ionisation inférieur à 10,2eV, il s'ionise en absorbant un photon. Les ions issus de cette photoionisation sont collectés en appliquant un potentiel positif sur une des électrodes. Le courant qui en résulte est amplifié par un électromètre identique à celui utilisé avec un détecteur à ionisation de flamme.

Spanish

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Record 9 1998-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

In 1956, Harley and Pretorius described a simple discharge detector for gas chromatography based on the electrical properties of a glow discharge, the voltage across the gaseous discharge being a function of the type of gas present. Druyvesteyn and Penning in 1940 reviewed the complex nature of the glow discharge, noting that the discharge is maintained by electrons emitted from the cathode which result from processes related to positive ion bombardment, photoelectric emission, and collisions with excited atoms. When trace quantities of a material eluted from a chromatographic column enter the detector (consisting of a small platinum disk cathode and a tungsten wire anode), a voltage change resulted which was recorded.

OBS

Using neon lamps Pitkethly found... that these detector were current and pressure independent at 1-1. 5 mS and 3-5 mm Hg.... In 1958, Roberts and Hinkle evaluated glow discharge tubes as detectors for compounds in the concentration range of 5-500 ppm and concluded that the detector was not applicable to general-purpose use.... More recently, Wilhite described glow discharge-type devices which act electrically similar to a gas-filled voltage-regulator tube... Riley described the use of an argon purity meter, a glow-type discharge detector, for the determination of small concentrations(0-1500 ppm) of impurity gases in argon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique

Spanish

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Record 10 1987-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
DEF

A gas-discharge tube in which radiation is emitted from a hollow cathode(closed at one end) in the form of a cathode glow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
DEF

Lampe à décharge dans laquelle la cathode est un corps creux contenant le ou les éléments à doser, et qui fonctionne dans des conditions telles que la vapeur des éléments à doser émette des raies particulièrement fines.

OBS

lampe à cathode creuse : Terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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