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The filament in the bulb (the thin tungsten wire inside) is heated with electricity and then it lights up. That is how incandescent bulbs work. (the old kind) CFL's (Compact Fluorescent Lights) work by a gas (possibly argon) is electrically charged and then the atoms give off light.

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