quartz lamp
- noun
- /kwɔrts læmp/
- Specialized
:
lámpara de cuarzo
- Her laboratory was equipped with a quartz lamp for conducting experiments that required ultraviolet light.
Examples
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During the outdoor event, the organizers set up a quartz lamp to ensure everyone could see clearly after sunset.
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The photography studio uses a quartz lamp to create bright, high-intensity lighting for their shoots.
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This time, it was to perform sliding drills on a still-dark field lit by a solitary quartz lamp.
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Synonyms
A bright electric lamp that makes bluish light often used for streets and large indoor places
A lamp that gives invisible light to make some paints glow and kill germs
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'quartz lamp' is directly compositional: a lamp made from or enclosed in quartz. A B1 learner who knows 'quartz' (a material) and 'lamp' (a light source) can infer this meaning, since material+object compounds are common cross-linguistically and follow straightforward composition.
Etymology
Quartz lamp comes from the simple idea that the lamp uses a tube of quartz instead of ordinary glass. Because quartz lets very strong, germ-killing light pass and can stand high heat, these lamps make very bright light and can be used to kill germs, which is why they are called 'quartz lamps'.