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A light bulb is wired up to have a current run through it to produce light light. when you disconnect the wire to one end of the light bulb there is no longer a current flowing through it and the light go's out. A switch is a device that is able to disconnect or connect the wire. or otherwise put cause a break in the wire so that power will not run through it.

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