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Sentence Examples Halogen lighting type fixtures provide a whiter, brighter appearance than standard incandescent or fluorescent type fixtures. A regular incandescent light bulb relies on the fact that all bodies with a temperature greater than absolute zero emit radiation. Look at them at different times of the day, and in both natural and incandescent light. They provide the characteristic warm glow of incandescent light bulbs, making them suitable for any application in the house. The problem with incandescent light bulbs is that the heat wastes a lot of electricity. A dinner candle, for example, generates about 12 lumens, while a 60-watt soft white incandescent bulb glows at around 840 lumens. The tungsten filament of an incandescent light is an example of a wire under extreme conditions. A small but very important amount of tungsten is also used to make the filament in incandescent light bulbs. I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it. I sit on the ledge and watch the sun play with incandescent shadows of deep green, as red deer graze in the distance. Dolly was close to incandescent in her outrage, and swore at me in a most unladylike manner. The solarization exposure was for 4 seconds with a 55 watt incandescent bulb at 4 feet from the developer tray. Mara stood there, face incandescent with rage, eyes blazing with purple wrath and entire body outlined in a shimmering nimbus of terrible light. In December 1878 and February 1879 he demonstrated his first incandescent electric bulbs. But unlike ordinary incandescent bulbs, they don't have a filament that will burn out, and they don't get especially hot. Compact fluorescents use a third to a quarter of the electricity of standard incandescent bulbs, and last up to 10 times longer. The controller contains photodetectors and a broadband infrared source such as the type of small incandescent lamp used in pocket flashlights. I also had to change the headlights because the lights that it came with were incandescent. From a safety standpoint, a rear incandescent stop lamp takes 250 milliseconds to light up once the brake pedal is depressed. Choose a CFL that's one-fourth of the wattage of your old incandescent bulb. Show More Sentences A CFL can replace an incandescent bulb with up to four times its wattage, resulting in a 75 percent energy savings. Wildfire and Firecat barreled through the thick smoke, their laser rifles blazing an incandescent firestorm through the smoke. Surely you may say, the Earth is almost wholly rock and nearly all incandescent with heat. The way the energy courses through it and gives off a small incandescent glow are fantastic. Without sources of light, they're all lit by incandescent smolderings of light from odd corners. The biggest impacts would have swathed our globe in incandescent rock vapor, boiling the oceans dry and sterilizing the surface worldwide. This is because light from an incandescent source is rich in the yellow and red end of the color spectrum. The metal flakes heat up until they are incandescent and shine brightly or, at a high enough temperature, actually burn. The ceiling lights were old yellow incandescent bulbs, and the monastery's little foyer smelled of wax, incense, and unwashed feet. The combination of fluorescent and incandescent lamps was intended to simulate ambient solar radiation. The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly. I saw Ethan standing in the dark with the streetlamps incandescent light shine on him. The 360 L.E.D. arrays and 20 yards of glowing semiconductors use the same energy as four 100-watt incandescent bulbs. For the same light output as an incandescent, most compact fluorescents use only one-third to one-fourth the energy. Fireflies may not mate normally near incandescent light because it mimics the spectrum they create when they light up. In lighting, for example, there are incandescent, compact fluorescent and LED bulbs. Navigation lights that use light emitting diodes in place of incandescent lamps are now available. They would probably drive a hybrid car and use an LED light instead of an incandescent one. Consider conducting important meetings under warmer incandescent or fluorescent lights. This was David as he had never seen him, practically incandescent with rage. Show More Sentences Buchner relies instead on an incandescent emotional realism which welds together the impressionistic nature of the play's structure and argument. Like Hilberg's the style is simple, but it lacks Hilberg's incandescent intensity. This probably is a good time to mention that the performance is incandescent, with inspired and inspirational work coming from everyone involved. He quotes from the incandescent love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve with a startling but unaccountable urgency. Marshall gives an incandescent performance vocally and dramatically as a woman desperately trying to hold on to her sanity in a world gone mad. The principals are all effective in their roles, but the key to the film's success is Dorothy Dandridge's incandescent performance as Carmen. Certainly the energy of Redgrave's performance for Welles is incandescent with the uncoiling of the character. If I ask them what television channel they'd like to watch, two of them will quickly agree, while the third will turn incandescent with rage. To get me incandescent with rage, it usually just takes New Yorkers and a confined space. I don't get angry very often, but I got incandescent with rage at their attitude and the smugness of it. It was at this moment that Brownlow's agent appeared, an hour too late, with inadequate support, and incandescent with rage. I am incandescent with rage about the overselling of that mediocre piece of less-than-fluff that masquerades as the ultimate romantic comedy. I was incandescent with rage at the thought that someone I considered a friend would be so thoughtless. Jack, until now delighted with what was on the way in his pay packet at the end of the month, was suddenly incandescent with rage. To cool a room, use fluorescent lights that don't emit infrared rays rather than using incandescent lights. Regular incandescent light bulbs produce light by heating a small filament inside the bulb. An incandescent light bulb contains a thin wire filament that glows hot when an electric current is run through it. Replace incandescent light bulbs with fluorescents, which last longer and use less energy. Instead of replacing high-wattage incandescent lamps with compact fluorescents, for example, one ESCO installed lower-wattage incandescent bulbs. If incandescent lamps have the advantage of producing a softer, more flattering light, why would anyone use fluorescents? Show More Sentences She has a folkie's unjaded commitment to social justice, a punk's DIY ethic, and the incandescent charisma of a born pop star. Most incandescent lamps operate with a color temperature of approximately 2900 degrees Kelvin. Over in the west, a subliminal azure glow that had been growing brighter and brighter suddenly sent a shaft of incandescent radiance up into the atmosphere. At only 23 watts, the bulb emits as much illumination as a 100-watt incandescent bulb, making it energy efficient as it neutralizes smoke and odors. In addition, the inconsistent mix of fluorescent and incandescent light sources throughout the hospital required continuous and costly maintenance. An incandescent black light bulb is similar to a normal household light bulb, but it uses light filters to absorb the light from the heated filament. Pulses of bright crimson light began to melt a passage through, and the bright shots of incandescent light blasted through the accumulated ice of aeons. Another simple step is to replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, which only use one-third the electricity and last 10 times longer. All he got was a Mozart opera where the singing was incandescent, the orchestra sparkled, and the brilliant production brought the Don to life in a modern setting. As one of the unlikely revolutionaries of the postwar years, Kinsey certainly engages me more than Howard Hughes, though not as much as the incandescent Ray Charles. In the days when all traffic lights consisted of incandescent bulbs behind a plastic filter, the heat produced by the lamps was not much of an issue for designers. He claims to have shouted at the radio within five minutes of switching it on in the morning and of being incandescent with rage by the time he has read the daily papers. These are just a few of the incandescent performances Quinn left behind. I sustained a neck injury and the taxi driver was incandescent with rage. The outback here seems acute, shrill and incandescent, making him one of the first directors to portray the dead heart as a place full of vibrant life. A 15-watt CFL bulb yields as much light as a 75-watt incandescent. My members are incandescent with rage over the present system, so what replaces it must be right this time. There's no room for any more botch-ups. Their dimming performance will rarely match that of an incandescent, but it is getting better as the technology improves. Scorpio Rising by R.G. Vliet One of the most scorching, incandescent romances ever. Designers of Montgomery County's lighting retrofits found an even more efficient alternative to incandescent lamps for use in illuminated exit signs. Show More Sentences Rustic, nakedly beautiful and breathless, part Fahey as it dustily scratches away at your resistance until you can do nothing but succumb to its incandescent inner passion. The incandescent bulbs, silvered on the tops to diffuse their light in a soft spread over the wall, function as punctuation points and visual anchors. The initial cost of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs will be offset by longer-term savings, Prime Minister John Howard said today. All the incandescent versions of linear task lights and some of the fluorescents are dimmable, which is a great advantage, allowing varying levels of lighting. By 1878, electric lights called arc lights, which predated Edison's incandescent bulb and which burned about 300 times brighter, lit London and Paris streets. The sun being, for reasons referred to above, assumed to be an incandescent liquid now losing heat, the question naturally occurs, How did this heat originate? To that end, the budget postpones federal phase-out of incandescent electric bulbs. They last far longer than incandescent bulbs and save enormous amounts of energy. Camps are often filled with incandescent screw-in bulbs and floodlights. Hove's incandescent anger and contempt for the lies and platitudes of the time-serving politicians, opposition as well as government, burns off the page. Dusk was past, a heavy overcast blocked the starlight, and outside of the incandescent glow that spilled from the open door, the darkness was complete. Consistently in almost every item, notably in Schubert's Unfinished, Brahms's Second or Bruckner's Eighth Symphonies, there is an incandescent glow that has one magnetised. Since regular, old-fashioned incandescent ones cost about 75 cents each, there is a huge differential in the upfront cost. By 1860 he was able to demonstrate a working device, and obtained a British patent covering a partial vacuum, carbon filament incandescent lamp. The initial cost of an incandescent bulb is small compared to the cost of the energy it uses over its lifetime. Lewis Howard Latimer invented an improvement for the incandescent light bulb. He also invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of incandescent light bulb. The system lit up arc lamps on the main streets and incandescent lamps on a few side streets with hydroelectric power. An ENERGY STAR qualified dimmable 10 watt BR30 LED bulb that generates as much light as most 65 watt incandescent bulbs. They also boast improved color rendition and consistency and last three times the lamp life of incandescent halogen lamps. Show More Sentences This supply scheme also provided electricity to a number of shops and premises to light 34 incandescent Swan light bulbs. Each dimming module is multi-rated to control incandescent, fluorescent, low-voltage, neon, cold-cathode, fan-speed and nondim sources. The project involved exchange of high energy consuming incandescent light bulbs for energy saving fluorescent bulbs. The idea was to replace old, incandescent lights with energy-efficient light-emitting diodes. The incandescent vocal harmonies collide with fractured, defiant soundbite lyrics and their see-sawing, splintered instrumentation. Fortunately, older model FMTV trucks with mechanical-type light switches and incandescent turn signal light bulbs are not affected. He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb before its invention by the American Thomas Edison. In 1882, incandescent electric lights were introduced to London streets, although it took many years before they were installed everywhere. On 3 February 1879, Mosley Street in the city, was the first public road in the world to be lit up by the incandescent lightbulb. The switch to quiet incandescent illumination in turn required a switch to more expensive film stock. In 1838, Belgian lithographer Marcellin Jobard invented an incandescent light bulb with a vacuum atmosphere using a carbon filament. Starr acquired a patent for his incandescent light bulb involving the use of carbon filaments. The first street in the world to be lit by an incandescent lightbulb was Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. By 1911 General Electric began selling incandescent light bulbs with ductile tungsten wire. The values for the incandescent bulbs are source efficiencies and efficacies. Some research has been carried out to improve the efficacy of commercial incandescent lamps. Such bulbs are much smaller than normal incandescent bulbs, and are widely used where intense illumination is needed in a limited space. The electrode then became incandescent, with the arc contributing little to the light produced. The table shows the approximate typical output, in lumens, of standard incandescent light bulbs at various powers. In buildings where air conditioning is used, incandescent lamps' heat output increases load on the air conditioning system. Show More Sentences Objections to banning the use of incandescent light bulbs include the higher initial cost of alternatives and lower quality of light of fluorescent lamps. I felt no conviction of a burning sincerity, of that fire in the belly which made some of the wilder nonconformist parsons of my youth appear almost incandescent. General service incandescent light bulbs over about 25 watts in rating are now filled with a mixture of mostly argon and some nitrogen, or sometimes krypton. When it comes to retrofitting an existing incandescent or fluorescent product to an LED device, Jobs's quote hits the proverbial nail on the head. A variation of the incandescent lamp did not use a hot wire filament, but instead used an arc struck on a spherical bead electrode to produce heat. Then swap out incandescent bulbs for low-pressure sodium lamps. The LED bulbs of GYLED Lighting are equipped with standard lamp holder interface, which can directly replace incandescent or ordinary energy-saving lamps. Today most incandescent lamps for general lighting service use an Edison screw in candelabra, intermediate, or standard or mogul sizes, or double contact bayonet base. A dog with its lips curled back in a rictus of fear rushed at the incandescent figure, but as soon as its front paws touched the entity's leg, the canine dropped dead. The incandescent lamps consume no oxygen, and cause no perceptible heat. The connected dynamo was used either to charge a bank of batteries or to operate up to 100 incandescent light bulbs, three arc lamps, and various motors in Brush's laboratory. They were used commercially beginning in the 1870s for large building and street lighting until they were superseded in the early 20th century by the incandescent light. The primary purpose of his inventions was the industrial scale production of filaments for incandescent lamps by compacting tungsten or molybdenum particles. By 1881, the Savoy Theatre in London was using incandescent lighting. These lights and lenses have been changed on some vehicles from a white incandescent bulb and red lens to a red light-emitting diode and clear lens during rebuild and repair. With it, Davy created the first incandescent light by passing electric current through a thin strip of platinum, chosen because the metal had an extremely high melting point. In 1841, Frederick de Moleyns of England was granted the first patent for an incandescent lamp, with a design using platinum wires contained within a vacuum bulb. Lavoisier produced hydrogen for his experiments on mass conservation by reacting a flux of steam with metallic iron through an incandescent iron tube heated in a fire. The impending ban on the utilization of incandescent bulbs in most of the Latin American nations will considerably boost the LED and florescent lighting market. The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century. Examples from Classical Literature This was the famous Edison's incandescent or glow lamp, which we see on every hand. If Mars were incandescent, we should appeal to the astrophysicist for information2 regarding its chemical composition. Immediately overhead the great crater was belching incandescent rock and scoria for an incredible distance. I was then taken to visit his incandescent ovens and his vats in a state of ebullition. She even manages to stow away on the Enola Gay, with the help of a general she's spent fifty incandescent pages seducing. Then leaf by leaf it dropped its petals until only an incandescent core was left. Then heat the top of the bubble till it is incandescent and blow violently. It is intended that Swan's incandescent lamp of 20-candle power shall be used. If there were no infra-red or ultra-violet in the radiation from an incandescent lamp its efficiency would be 100 per cent. But, as in the case of the incandescent bulb, many a rival is now disputing the field, so that supersedure may be close at hand. What was the significance of the broken incandescent burner, the turned-on gas, and the faint mark under the window? The advent of incandescent lamps of higher efficiency has made it uneconomical to use carbon lamps for general lighting purposes. All other incandescent lamps and the Nernst lamps are supplied through transformers from the 60-cycle lighting system. The separate resistances of two incandescent lamps are 200 ohms and 70 ohms. The picture below will show you the appearance of an incandescent lamp. Many users have been displeased with the light quality of fluorescent bulbs relative to that of incandescent bulbs. In the midst the incandescent lamp that hung like the moon in heaven! In the center of the lantern is placed the incandescent lamp. Almost as he said it, the steel beneath the blowpipe became incandescent. From face to face and speaker to speaker his eyes would turn, boring like gimlets of incandescent ice, disconcerting and perturbing. Show More Sentences It is so small that the electric current of a single incandescent lamp is greater 500,000,000 times. His fire was waiting incandescent, his steam was at high pressure, in a few seconds he could make the long strap move at an invisible velocity. Interiors have doors with invisible flush frames and an American black walnut wall with specially designed incandescent LED cove lighting. When anything becomes hot enough to glow, we say it is incandescent. And at last it was won, and the incandescent lamp placed on the market. Now you have learned how the incandescent lamp is made to give light. Their boat seemed to be sailing on the bosom of an incandescent stream. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. The hapless PS1 million a year PFA PF figurehead soon found himself facing bucketloads of ordure from the incandescent digital tribes and their shrieking acolytes. So a switch to compact fluorescent bulbs, which use about a quarter of the energy of incandescent bulbs to generate the same amount of light, makes a difference. Find more words! 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