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What gas lights a light bulb?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

A standard incandescent bulb has no gas in it. Instead it's a vacuum. The reason you get light out of it is because of the Tungsten filament has a high resistance to current flow and heats up to the point that it emits light.

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