Small thin wire part of incandescent light bulbs that produces light.
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Examples for "filament"
Examples for "filament"
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The stimulus must therefore radiate in all directions from any one filament.
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Each filament held a fleshy mass about the size of my fist.
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Overexpression of the SFL1 led to a significant reduction of filament formation.
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Movement of bead of filament magnified about twice; seedling illuminated from above.
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In this unit, novel single-filament approaches using microfluidics-assisted TIRF imaging are described.
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Two excellent examples of a blackbody: the Sun and an incandescent light bulb filament.
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However, the incandescent filament lamp has many inherent advantages.
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The balustrade seventy feet above the sunken gardens was surmounted by nearly two hundred incandescent filament search-lights.
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By the use of electric incandescent filament lamps in conjunction with mercury-arcs, a fairly satisfactory light is obtained.
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These additional losses are appreciable in the mechanisms of arc-lamps but are almost negligible in vacuum incandescent filament lamps.
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Luna Park, Coney Island, studded with 60,000 incandescent filament lamps
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In 1879 the incandescent filament lamp was introduced and it began to appear on the streets in a short time.
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Throughout the development of incandescent filament lamps many ingenious experiments were made which resulted usually in light-sources of scientific interest but not of practical value.
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(2) A negative particle of electricity thrown off from the incandescent filament of a vacuum tube.