| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | luz negra |
| norja | black light |
| ranska | lumière noire |
| saksa | Schwarzlicht |
| suomi | mustavalolamppu |
| venäjä | лампа чёрного света (lampa tšornogo sveta) |
| Monikko | black lights |
(countable) A light bulb that emits ultraviolet light, usually used to create the illusion that anything white is glowing.
Blacklight fluorescent tubes. The violet glow of a blacklight is not the UV light itself, but visible light that escapes being filtered out by the filter material in the glass envelope.
(uncountable, slang) Ultraviolet radiation or light.
Spectrum of a blacklight fluorescent tube. FWHM spectral bandwidth of the 370 nm peak is about 20 nm. The tiny secondary peak (2) is light from the mercury vapor line at 404 nm leaking through the filter, which gives the lamp its purple glow.
(countable) A light bulb that emits ultraviolet light, usually used to create the illusion that anything white is glowing.
Two blacklight fluorescent tubes, showing use. The top is a F15T8/BLB 18-inch, 15-watt tube, used in a standard plug-in fluorescent fixture. The bottom is an F8T5/BLB 12-inch, 8-watt tube, used in a portable battery-powered blacklight sold as a pet urine detector.