Floor Lamps, and Kitchen Lighting. Many people like the look of these in their living room. The chemical reaction in a light stick usually involves several different steps. A close relative of gasoline, kerosene burned brighter and cleaner than other lamp oils. Fluorescent a discharge lamp in which a phosphor coating transforms ultraviolet energy into visible light. You know that electrons are the negatively charged particles that move around an atoms nucleus which has a net positive charge. Slide-to-off dimmer - slide-to-off models have an on/off switch activated at the bottom of the linear slide travel.