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To: nickcarraway
Can anyone ell me if CFLs are available that emit natural spectrum, light?

I'd like to get me some that emit a supernatural spectrum. Incandescents are "warmer" because they directly emulate the sun's blackbody radiation. Fluorescents fluoresce, in a number of narrow spectral lines. You can put coating on the glass that broadened the spectrum somewhat, it ain't nothing like the real thing.

17 posted on 01/22/2011 8:18:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Actually clear glass flourescents would be useless except in sterilization chambers-it is the coating on the inside of the glass that produces human-visible light as a result of being excited by the ultraviolet emitted by the electric arc inside the tube.


68 posted on 01/22/2011 9:38:15 AM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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