Are mercury burners for a microscope interchangeable if they have the same housing, wattage, and voltage?

I pulled a dead HBO 103 W/2 OSRAM bulb out of our fluorescent microscope, and I'm trying to replace it with at HBO 100 W/2 OSRAM bulb I found stashed in the lab. Although one bulb outputs fewer...

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