quartz-halogen lamp
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
43
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "A quartz-halogen lamp is mounted under a standard emergency flasher, but is capable of being raised on a telescopic pole four feet to provide lighting for an area approximately 200 feet in diameter."
- "Interiors are just as rich in infrared possibilities. Artificial light sources such as photofloods, electronic strobes, quartz-halogen lamps and regular light bulbs radiate a good deal of infrared (fluorescent light contains very little)."
- "Two scientists at the University of Genoa, Italy, noted that the rays coming from unshielded quartz-halogen lamps can induce mutations in the DNA of bacteria."