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n. The removable, light-emitting part of a fluorescent lamp
Usage examples of "fluorescent tube".
There was a faint rush from the forced-air heating and a buzz from a failing fluorescent tube.
The fluorescent tube didn't shatter, but the lamp swung wildly on its long chains.
A single fluorescent tube clicked and sputtered and finally ignited, spilling a fuzzy green glow through the door into the bedroom.
At the last light bulb, Arkady squeezed through a second hatch and found himself on his hands and knees inside a low, windowless room that was smoothly plastered and painted and lit by a fluorescent tube.
Except the thing was broken or worn out, a kind of hesitation in the waves, and the red of the sunset pulsed like a bad fluorescent tube.
She looked around, waiting for some sign from her child, and she and Elliot twitched in surprise when the overhead fluorescent tube winked off, then came on again.
The room was silent, lit by an overhead fluorescent tube, the blinds down as Chee remembered them.
A single red fluorescent tube flickered into life, illuminating the shelf and, as it came down the shaft, the cage.
The en-y vetoping steam flickered like a fluorescent tube warming up.
Like a gas discharge in a fluorescent tube, it moved until it enveloped the whole Earth.
A fluorescent tube went twirling up beside them like a cheerleader’.
The room at the back was brightly lit with a fluorescent tube, and when Sue tried the door it opened easily.
In a fluorescent tube, the glass enclosure confines the mercury vapor.
A fluorescent tube winked on overhead, revealing a long passageway between rows of storage rooms.