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Artificial light refers to light produced by human technologies, mainly electric lamps. The main types of electric lights are incandescent, fluorescent, LEDs, and high intensity discharge lamps, such as sodium vapor amd mercury vapor. The term is misleading because artificial light is real light. A more accurate term would be "artificial sunlight". Even better is "electric light." Artificial light is a term often used in photography and to refer to the situation of plants grown under electric lights rather than with sunlight. References Re: which is better for regular plants 2 grow in sunlight or artificial ligh?y? Definitions of artificial light on the Web
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