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Noun: sodium-vapour lamp
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: sodium-vapor lamp)
  1. Lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapour makes a yellow light; used in street lighting
    "The sodium-vapour lamps gave the street an eerie orange glow";
    - sodium-vapor lamp [US]

Derived forms: sodium-vapour lamps

Type of: lamp

Encyclopedia: Sodium-vapour lamp