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  • Fluorescent Tube exhibit
  • Fluorescent Tube exhibit
  • Fluorescent Tube exhibit
  • Fluorescent Tube exhibit

Fluorescent Tube

Powder inside a fluorescent tube makes invisible light visible.

Where:   Bechtel Gallery 3: Seeing & Listening
Exhibit Developer:   Joshua Myers
Subjects:
Phenomena: Atoms and Particles, Color, Electric Current, Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum, Fluorescence, Light Production, Techniques to Make the Invisible Visible, Wave Excitation, Absorption: Light

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