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What would the light from a florescent globe be like if they didn't coat the inside of the glass with white paint?

Florescent globes come in colors such as 'warm white' with corresponding paint on the inside of the glass. What would the nature of the light be if there was no paint on the glass?
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Nothing visible. 

Fluorescent lamps excite mercury vapor, that excitation releases ultraviolet light. The paint on the inside is phosporous which emits light in the visible spectrum when it's struck by the ultraviolet light.

If you took out the paint you wouldn't see anything and would be bombarded with radiation.

**edit
As others have pointed out below it seems there is a bit of visible light. 
The name for a fluorescent lamp without phosphors is a gas discharge tube.