Eli5 why there lamps with yellow light and others with white light ? How does it light in white or in yellow
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It’s called color temperature. The warmer tones in orange and yellow range are more like candlelight and considered cozier/homier so those are good for living room and bedrooms. A more neutral white light is better in kitchens and bathrooms. There are also very bright, almost blue lights that are very harsh and mostly useful in a place like a gymnasium or warehouse.
Some lights have LED’s(white light) some have regular lightbulbs(yellow-ish light), it could also have something to do with the lamp shades
The orange lamps are called *sodium-vapor lamps* because to produce light, electricity is pumped through a chamber filled with sodium vapor. This excites the atoms, and when they “cool off” from being excited, they give off orange light.
The white lights are either mercury-vapor (same concept, just using mercury) or LED.
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