Cleaning Lamp

plasma_guy

16th May 2007 - 09:16 AM

Was wondering about why this lamp was so special, then I read:

QUOTE

"At 166 kcal/mol (7.2 eV), the high photon energy of the radiation breaks even tenacious molecular bonds quickly and efficiently. "

http://www.sylvania.com/BusinessProducts/L...c/OSRAMXERADEX/

If they found a universal "cleaning" radiation, I would have expected more fanfare about it. I mean this could possibly have uses in general industrial cleaning for example.

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