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Plasma screens lit tiny cells of gas

Each cell held a gas mixture that glowed and excited a phosphor coating Plasma panels, invented at the University of Illinois in 1964, filled thousands of tiny cells with a gas mix including xenon. An electric discharge produced ultraviolet light, which made phosphors glow red, green or blue. The panels were bright and large but heavy and power hungry. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Each cell held a gas mixture that glowed and excited a phosphor coating. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.