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Old Aug 22, 2008 | 2:53 pm
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They make both incandescent and fluorescent black lights. And LED based ones too, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_light

Black light is "soft" UV light - just a bit of UVA and nothing over 400 nm wavelength.

In any case, FlyinHawaiian and I were saying pretty much the same thing.
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