An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows.
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16 Facts About Incandescent light
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Incandescent light stated that he could "read a book at a distance of one and a half feet".
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Incandescent light used as a burner two carbon rods of diminished section in a glass receiver, hermetically sealed, and filled with nitrogen, electrically arranged so that the current could be passed to the second carbon when the first had been consumed.
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The Incandescent light bulb invented by Cruto lasted five hundred hours as opposed to the forty of Edison's original version.
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Incandescent light devised a method of treating cotton to produce 'parchmentised thread' in the early 1880s and obtained British Patent 4933 that same year.
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Luminous efficacy of a Incandescent light source is the ratio of the visible Incandescent light to the total power input to the source, such as a lamp.
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Visible Incandescent light is measured in lumens, a unit which is defined in part by the differing sensitivity of the human eye to different wavelengths of Incandescent light .
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Spectrum of light produced by an incandescent lamp closely approximates that of a black body radiator at the same temperature.
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The basis for light sources used as the standard for color perception is a tungsten incandescent lamp operating at a defined temperature.
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Measures to ban Incandescent light bulbs have been implemented in the European Union, the United States, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Australia, among others.
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Objections to banning the use of incandescent light bulbs include the higher initial cost of alternatives and lower quality of light of fluorescent lamps.
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Incandescent light bulbs consist of an air-tight glass enclosure with a filament of tungsten wire inside the bulb, through which an electric current is passed.
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Incandescent light lamps are nearly pure resistive loads with a power factor of 1.
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Incandescent light bulbs are usually marketed according to the electrical power consumed.
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Filament in a tungsten light bulb is not easy to break when the bulb is cold, but filaments are more vulnerable when they are hot because the incandescent metal is less rigid.
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Incandescent light lamps are very sensitive to changes in the supply voltage.
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