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- The incandescent light bulb or incandescent lamp is a source of artificial light that works by incandescence. An electrical current passes through ...44 KB (6,810 words) - 12:43, 4 March 2024
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- at a common base rather than a single large bulb. Plants known as shallots ... where each plant normally forms a single bulb, shallots form clusters of ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- North American species, the base of the bulb develops into rhizomes, on ... with the potato, although the individual bulb scales are much smaller. ...20 KB (2,868 words) - 08:42, 8 March 2023
- Onion is the common name for the herbaceous, cold season plant Allium cepa, which is characterized by a edible, rounded bulb composed of concentric ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- are perennial bulbous-rooted plants. A bulb is an underground vertical ... enormous prices were charged for a single bulb. The Black Tulip by Alexandre ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- mitral cells, which lie in the olfactory bulb. These cells produce a signal ... The olfactory signals are carried from the olfactory bulb primarily ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:light-bulb-grating.png|thumb|right|300px|A light [[incandescent light bulb|bulb]] of a flashlight seen through a transmissive grating ...13 KB (1,983 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- The incandescent light bulb or incandescent lamp is a source of artificial light that works by incandescence. An electrical current passes through ...44 KB (6,810 words) - 12:43, 4 March 2024
- Electric power is defined as the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. When electric current flows through a ...5 KB (743 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- mounted within a larger borosilicate glass bulb. The outer bulb may be clear ... lamps are coated on the inside of the outer bulb with a phosphor that converts ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2022
- flakes detached from the flake's bulb of force. When a chert stone is struck against steel, sparks result. This makes it an excellent tool ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- the temperature sensor (such as the bulb on a mercury thermometer) ... in 1638. This was a vertical tube, with a bulb at the top and the end immersed ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- The chive is a bulb-forming herbaceous perennial plant, growing to 30-50 centimeters (cm) tall. The bulbs are slender, conical, 2-3 cm long and ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 23:56, 13 January 2023
- to compete with the incandescent light bulb of his former boss Thomas ... The inner surface of the bulb is coated with a fluorescent (and often ...43 KB (6,681 words) - 17:46, 28 March 2024
- ===Bulb and stem vegetables=== [[Image:Garlic.jpg|thumb|230px|right|Garlic bulbs and individual cloves, one peeled.]] * Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis ...18 KB (2,509 words) - 16:34, 14 November 2022
- Edison did not invent the electric light bulb. Several designs had already ... demonstration of the incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo ...26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
- of Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb (although the light-bulb was in fact invented by Joseph Swan). The publicity elements of the ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- short subterranean stem that is actually a bulb-like rhizome. Each leaf reaches ... pot in a tray full of water, with the root bulb of the plant allowed to be ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 17:48, 3 May 2023
- The mercury switch consists of a drop of mercury inside a glass bulb ... off, which poses a risk when changing a bulb. Another problem with this ...28 KB (4,495 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- region is only an appendix to the large olfactory bulb, it represent most of the volume of the mammalian CNS. In the human brain, the telencephalon ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- Category:Public number=74 | symbol=W | name=tungsten | left=tantalum | right=rhenium | above=Mo | below=Sg | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black ...17 KB (2,431 words) - 18:45, 2 May 2023
