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To produce the light. When it gets heated, it glows.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoIt heats up when a current is passed through it and, as it gets hotter, it glows and radiates energy in the visible spectrum.
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What is the thin wire is an electric bulb that glows called?
It is known as filament. filament
What items contain tungsten?
Electric bulb Filament
What part of the electric bulb produces heat?
filament
Any three parts of an electric bulb?
Three parts of an electric bulb might include the filament, the actual bulb, and the base.
Who invented the incandescent filament electric light bulb?
Thomas A. Edison
Can you use a copper wire to make a filament of an electric bulb?
No, copper wire cannot be used to make the filament of an electric bulb as copper wire has very low resistance. Therefore, the bulb will not glow if current is passed. It would also melt - the filament has to be white-hot to be any use!
What is electrical energy converted into when electric current flows through the metal filament of a light bulb?
Electrical energy is converted into light and heat when electric current flows through the metal filament of a light bulb.
What is the filament in lights?
Filament is a thin part of incandescent bulb which is the source of electric light that electric current passes through and heated it until it produce light.
What is the scientific name of electric bulb?
The scientific name for an electric bulb is incandescent light bulb, named after the process of incandescence which produces light through heating a filament.
What is the wire inside an electric bulb known as?
This was called a filament and was found in older electric light bulbs.
Why the electric bulb does not works if oxidation takes place inside it?
Because the filament will burn, and the filament is the part that produces the light.
Construction and working of electric bulb?
initially when current pass through the filament
