A blacklight, also called a UV-A light, Wood's lamp, or ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave ultraviolet light and very little visible light. One type of lamp has a violet filter material
Blacklight fluorescent tubes. The violet glow of a blacklight is not the UV light itself, but visible light that escapes being filtered out by the filter material in the glass envelope.
Compact fluorescent blacklight bulb
100-watt incandescent blacklight bulb
Fluorescence is one of two kinds of photoluminescence, the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. When exposed to ultraviolet radiation, many subs
Blacklight
…lamp emit ultraviolet light with visible light, blacklights are essential when UV-A light without visible light is needed, particularly in observing fluorescence, the colored glow that many substances emit when exposed to UV. They are employed for decorative and artistic lighting effects, diagnostic and therapeutic…
Fluorescent minerals emit visible light when exposed to ultraviolet.
Fluorescent marine organisms
Fluorescent clothes used in black light theatre production, Prague
A cup made from the wood of the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus) beside a flask containing its fluorescent solution Lignum nephriticum