There was also the possibility, if the converter station in Kingsnorth was out of service, to run the system as mercury vapour rectifiers.
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An HMI lamp uses mercury vapour mixed with metal halides in a quartz-glass envelope, with two tungsten electrodes of medium arc separation.
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In 2011, the municipality maintained a total of 1, 126 street lamps : 184 sodium lamps, four mercury vapour lamps and 990 tube lights.
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His Hebridean collection, started on Barra in 1936 was continued on Canna from 1938 with the use of a mercury vapour moth trap from 1951 onwards.
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In the late 1970s, the original incandescent platform lights that automatically lit when stopping trains approached were replaced with more efficient permanently lit mercury vapour lights.
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Other than mercury vapour, are there any other common metals-as-gas ? talk ) 06 : 22, 26 July 2011 ( UTC)
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In July 2009, the bridge's lighting system was updated with new LED lights to replace this existing system of 100-watt mercury vapour bulbs.
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By means of a commutator the mercury vapour and helium tube is placed in circuit for two-thirds of a revolution and the neon tube for the remaining third.
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There are a total of 4, 517 street lamps in the town : 275 sodium lamps, 201 mercury vapour lamps and 4, 041 tube lights in the town.
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Historically, other working fluids such as mercury have been experimentally used in a mercury vapour turbine power plant, since these can attain higher temperatures than water at lower working pressures.
