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What is a gray metal with high melting point used in incandescent lights called?
Tungsten is a metal with a high melting point that is often used in incandescent lamps.
What does 'incandescent' mean?
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.
Who was the inventor of the incandescent light bulb?
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.
What is the energy pathway for an incandescent?
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Why do stores offices and schools use fluorescent lights instead of incandescent?
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.
What is the name for a regular light bulb?
incandescent
What are the common light bulbs called?
Incandescent bulbs.
What is the resistor in an incandescent light bulb called?
It is the filament.
What was the first name of the light bulb?
The Incandescent Lamp
Do incandescent bulbs contain a filament of platinum?
yes, incandescent bulbs do not contain a filament of platinum. Yes they do contain a filament called a tungsten.
What did Thomas Edison name the light bulb?
He named his invention the Incandescent Lamp, But it's commonly referred to today as the Incandescent Light Bulb.
What is a gray metal with high melting point used in incandescent lights called?
Tungsten is a metal with a high melting point that is often used in incandescent lamps.
Which part of the bulb is made of very thin wire?
This is the part of an incandescent bulb called the filament. Incandescent bulbs are obsolescent and will probably phase out over the next few decades.
Why does the incandescent light bulb have such a long name?
Long names are descriptive; they contain information. We could instead call an incandescent lightbulb a light, which is much shorter, but less informative.
What are those substances called which are non-luminous but become luminous on heating?
They are described as being 'incandescent'.
Use incandescent in a sentence?
i do not want an incandescent bulb.
Sentence with Incandescent?
The sun was incandescent during the summertime.
