subject: Lava Lamps--increase The Beauty Of Your Room! [print this page] Lava lamps are basically lamps that are more often used as articles of decoration than illumination. The slow and mesmerizing rise and fall of various blobs of wax resembles lava, which gives it the name "Lava lamp". They are available in various styles and shapes which include different shades and wax colors.
Glitter lamps work on the same principle but with confetti instead of wax. This is counted as the major difference between them. But still, glitter lamps have an advantage which makes them preferable to some people. And that is, it just takes 30 minutes to start as compared to the other ones.
They operate in a curious yet interesting way. An incandescent bulb or a halogen bulb warms a glass chamber in which water is encased mixed with a mixture of translucent or opaque wax and carbon tetrachloride. There are various proportions but this is the most suitable and economical one. The density of wax is relatively higher than room temperature and it decreases when it is warmed and it eventually melts into a liquid and travels to the surface of the lamp in the shape of blobs. But after some time the blobs can cool and come down.
Generally a bulb of 25 to 40 watts is used. The wax takes about three hours to melt and forms in to blobs. As soon as the lamp starts working continuously, be cautious that anyone doesn't shake or drop the lamp. That's because liquids can emulsify and this would produce unclear and cloudy blobs. If this occurs, lamp will be needed to be left alone for a few hours until the wax settles down.
The lava lamp was invented by the Singapore-born Englishman Edward Craven-Walker in the'60s. Craven-Walker's got together a company named Crest-worth which was based in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom. The lamps were a household item in the'60s and early 70s.The lamps were a success throughout the'60s and early 70s.
Specter made the deal to sign over Lava Simplex International to Eddie Sheldon and Haggerty of Haggerty Enterprises. In the late seventies Specter sold Lava Simplex International to Eddie Sheldon and Larry Haggerty of Haggerty Enterprises. They kept on assembling and vending Lava lamps under the name of Lava world. However, Lava world has been non-operational in the US for some time.
Philip Quinn, a 24-year old youth residing in Kent, Washington died during an experiment in which he heated a lava lamp on his kitchen stove, observing it from a few feet away. The heat produced from the stove was enough to build up sufficient pressure to make the lamp explode, spraying glass shards everywhere, one of which were sharp and big enough to pierce his heart owing to which he received his death.
by: Andy Zain
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