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50-inch xenon flashlamp

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This flash lamp consists of a long metal tube with a metal cap at both ends. There are wire loops at regular intervals along the side of the glass tube. The object is secured inside a wood case.

This 50-inch xenon flash lamp iluminated at 10,000 watts per second, and six of them were used to illuminate a large cloud chamber at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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