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This page is a list of sources of Light . It includes both natural and artificial sources, and both ''processes'' and ''devices''.

NATURAL

Astronomical Object s

Bioluminescence

--- Fireflies

--- Antarctic Krill

Lightning

Auroras

Sunlight

Skylight

DIRECT CHEMICAL

Chemoluminescence ( Lightstick s)

Fluorescence

Phosphorescence

COMBUSTION-BASED

See Also: Combustion

Acetylene/Carbide Lamps

Betty Lamp

Butter Lamp

Candle s

Fire

Gas Lighting

Kerosene Lamp s

Lantern s

Oil Lamp s

Rushlight s

Safety Lamp s

--- Davy Lamp s

--- Geordie Lamp s

Torch es

ELECTRIC

Arc lamps

See Also: Arc lamp

Yablochkov Candle s

Incandescent lamps

See Also: Incandescence

Carbon Button Lamp

Conventional Incandescent Light Bulb s

--- Flashlight

Globar

Limelight s

Nernst Lamp

Electroluminescent (EL) lamps

See Also: Electroluminescence

Light-emitting Diode s

--- Organic Light-emitting Diode s

--- Polymer Light-emitting Diode s

--- Solid-state Lighting

Gas discharge lamps

See Also: Gas discharge lamp

Fluorescent Lamp s

--- Black Light

Inductive Lighting

Hollow Cathode Lamp

Neon And Argon Lamps

Plasma Lamp s

Xenon Flash Lamp s

High-intensity discharge lamps

See Also: High-intensity discharge lamp

Ceramic Discharge Metal Halide Lamp s

Hydrargyrum Medium-arc Iodide (HMI) Lamps

Mercury-vapor Lamp s

Metal Halide Lamp s

Sodium Vapor Lamp s

Xenon Arc Lamp s

NUCLEAR

Radioluminescent Paint (formerly used on watch and clock dials)

Self-powered Lighting

OTHER

Cherenkov Radiation

Laser s

Sonoluminescence

Sulfur Lamp

Synchrotron Light