DefinitionA <FLUORESCENT LAMP> is an <ARTEFACT> and a <LAMP> that is electric and usually tubular, and that has a coating of fluorescent material on its inner surface and containing mercury vapor whose bombardment by electrons from the cathode provides ultraviolet light which causes the material to emit visible light
Especially a tubular electric-discharge lamp containing mercury vapour, ultra-violet radiation from which causes the fluorescence of a coating of phosphor on the inside of the tube.