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Why lamp gives light?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Because it is made to do so.

An incandescent light bulb glows because electricity heats the filament until it is very hot and excites the atoms so much they emit "black body" radiation, much of which is in the visible part of the spectrum.

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