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A flashtube, also called a flashlamp, is an electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations. Flashtubes are made of a length of glass tubing with electrodes at either end and are filled with a gas that, when triggered, ionizes and conducts a high voltage pulse to produce the l...
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electric discharge lamp giving a very bright, very brief burst of light, useful in photography and engineering. See flash lamp.[2 related articles]
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