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...fine wire in the bulb is called a filament. The bulb "lights up" when the filament is heated by the passage of an (electric) current...
...When a weak battery produces little current, the fine wire, or (filament) does not get very...
...filament which is less hot sends out or gives off (less) light...
...Kunsthistorisches Museum, which shifts its Bruegels around on easels to catch the changing light, to Manhattan's glass-walled Museum of Modern Art, which shuts out all direct sunlight, Capodimonte Director Molajoli chose an elaborate mixture of the best of all systems, combined natural with both filament and fluorescent light, automatically mixed to maintain level, shadowless lighting...
From Taiwan came Feng-Jang Leu, managing director of the China Artificial Fiber Corp. in Tapei, which manufactures five tons of rayon filament a day, netted some 20% on its $2,000,000 gross last year. He wants a backer with $1,000,000 to build a mill that will 'produce 15 tons a day of fiber, his raw material, thus fill his own needs and those of other Taiwan firms...