The basic meaning of 'incandescent' is 'glowing very brightly'.
For example and incandescent light bulb is one that works by heating the tungsten filament until it is white hot and emits light.
Thomas Alva Edison invented the first practical incandescent lamp in 1879. Many other scientists created the incandescent lights before Edison did, but those lights were not practically useful.
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Incandescent lights are expensive to run (they give off a lot of heat was well as light), incandescent lights are much more efficient. However modern LED light bulbs are better (more efficient) than both incandescent and fluorescent lights so in the future you will see a change to the use of these.
Tungsten is a metal with a high melting point that is often used in incandescent lamps.
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i do not want an incandescent bulb.
The sun was incandescent during the summertime.
I am so incandescent with rage.
Incandescent Man was created in 1985.
Incandescent - album - was created in 1985.
An incandescent bulb wastes electricity.
Zirconium is not used in incandescent lamps.
I am replacing all of my incandescent light bulbs today.
No, carbon dioxide is not emitted by an incandescent lamp.
No, incandescent lights give off heat. LED do not.
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light which produces light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature by an electric current passing through it, until it glows.
The incandescent lamps are very frequently used in all the buildings !