[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Nice haul!! :

I think the bulbs might be germicidal bulbs:

http://members.misty.com/don/uvbulb.html#oz

jr

In the undergraduate Physics lab I took they used these as a convenient source for the mercury spectra since they're low pressure. They had a simple prism spectrometer and they also had us use a diffraction grating.

Maybe that's why I have cataracts... Nothing like staring at vacuum UV.

John