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Incandescent bulbs or if you prefer, plain old fashioned light bulbs, the ones with a filament (the bit of wire inside) that gets very hot and gives off light. They tend to give off a bit more at the red end of the spectrum, particularly the lower power ones but they do give off all the colours. Some run the filament at a sufficiently high temperature to give a pretty balanced white light. Most of the modern energy efficient bulbs give off light at a limited number of frequencies but much more light per watt of power that goes in.

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