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His blood looked purple under the mercury-vapor lights.

Nutrition 2010

At a conversazione held last year at Columbia University, and at a recent meeting of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, his mercury-vapor lamp was exhibited — the practical culmination of research in a new field in electro-physics.

Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors 2008

Buzzing mercury-vapor lamps cast bright light on the grimy concrete floor, where scaffolding grew shiny ball-bearing pods of various sizes.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 18.1 of 31.1 2009

Phnom Penh at night seems strangely dark to anyone accustomed to the eternal mercury-vapor glow of American cities.

Travel in Cambodia: November 2000 Trip: Phnom Penh and Tonle Bati 2008

Kettlewell marked and released both light-colored and dark moths early in the morning, and recaptured some the next night in both pheromone and light traps using mercury-vapor lamps.

Ann Coulter: Clueless - The Panda's Thumb 2006

When October came — October of the vagabond, with the leaves brilliant out on the Palisades, and Sixth Avenue moving-picture palaces cool again and gay — Mr. Wrenn stayed late, under the mercury-vapor lights, making card cross-files of the Southern merchants, their hobbies and prejudices, and whistling as he worked, stopping now and then to slap the desk and mutter,

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

His blood looked purple under the mercury-vapor lights.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Teams tried high-pressure sodium-vapor lights (too inefficient) and mercury-vapor lights (too orange), always reverting to incandescent bulbs.

WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR? VINCE STATEN 2003

Mr. Barton will sell you an exact 1: 1 scale replica of Robby that "incorporates a digital audio sound-track from the movie that lights the nine mercury-vapor neon tubes in his mouth synchronously with the robot's original voice as heard in the film."

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

Earlier in the day, he had broken the single mercury-vapor lamp in the immediate area, so his movements now were in near-total darkness.

State Of War Clancy, Tom 2003