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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
- the glass envelope of a traditional light bulb or tube. The plastic may be ... (perhaps 0.5s faster than an incandescent bulb) improves safety by giving ...41 KB (6,290 words) - 01:16, 26 October 2022
- Note that the term "bulb" refers to modified stem tubers with a short fleshy vertical stem, covered by thick fleshy modified leaves ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- century, with the introduction of the light bulb and vacuum tube, and a wide ... | Incandescent light bulb || 10 to 1 Pa || (0.1 to 0.01 Torr) ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- volume of gasoline, enough to light a 100 watt bulb for almost four hours or power a television for three hours. In 2003, 54 billion aluminum cans were ...10 KB (1,694 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- is caused by excitation of atoms of gas in a bulb.]] The electrodes shown at the right would be in the vacuum chamber, which is flat, in a narrow ...12 KB (1,883 words) - 06:53, 12 January 2024
- The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- light source such as the incandescent light bulb, which emits into a large ... emission spectrum of a fluorescent light bulb can be designed using gas ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- redness is not likely to appear under a blue light bulb. Some have tried to avoid this problem by extending the conditions in the analysandum: ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- activity. This explains why "The electric bulb is an object of scientifical thought… an example of an abstract-concrete object." ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- [[Image:Science museum 011.jpg|thumb|180px|50,000 W bulb]] [[Image:Pendulum ChicagoMuseumScienceIndustry.jpg|thumb|180px|The pendulum clock at ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- Category:Public {| class="infobox" style="width: 25em;" |----- align=center bgcolor="#9966FF" !colspan=2 align=center ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Rats are various medium sized rodents, similar in appearance to mice, but larger. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 06:43, 17 July 2022
- are similar to the mammalian olfactory bulb, and the mechanosensory neuropils ... pathways are routed to the olfactory bulb, then to various parts of ...28 KB (4,199 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:Compact-Flourescent-Bulb.jpg|thumb|right|A compact fluorescent ... sold contained 5 mg or less of mercury per bulb, while 96 percent contained ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- (such as a test light consisting of just a light bulb and a test lead) to extremely complex and sophisticated such as Automatic Test Equipment. ...15 KB (2,062 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2024
- Tantalum, formerly tantalium (chemical symbol Ta, atomic number 73) is a rare, blue-gray, lustrous metal. It is very hard, has a high melting ...14 KB (1,813 words) - 03:03, 19 April 2023
- bulbs may contain mercury, and breakage of such a bulb could result in a costly mercury spill. ==Theoretical considerations== ===Photochemistry=== ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- the flag, but the UNC's has longer trim. The bulb at the top of the KPA flagpole stands taller than the UNC bulb, but the UNC's has greater ...29 KB (4,482 words) - 19:40, 4 May 2024
- thick. An analogy of this would be a light bulb heating the air surrounding it hotter than its glass surface. The second law of thermodynamics ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- " is much thicker and shaped like a bulb with one or two annular constrictions that prevent it from falling off. Before each molt, a new ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- of the medium itself. McLuhan pointed to the light bulb as a clear demonstration of this concept. A light bulb does not have content in the way that ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- was to invent an improved incandescent light bulb, and consider the need for an electrical distribution system to provide power for light bulbs. ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- was just 40 watts--equivalent to a dim light bulb or a burning match. After just 28 minutes of operation, the reaction was stopped with cadmium strips ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Patent Application For an incandescent light bulb, 1880. Image:EllisIsland1900.jpg|Immigrants Landing at Ellis Island, 1990s. Image:Titanic-lifeboat ...18 KB (2,561 words) - 01:36, 11 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Sociology The Hawthorne effect refers to a phenomenon which is thought to occur ...19 KB (2,835 words) - 15:03, 25 January 2023
- feet branching from them. Each tube foot has a bulb-like ampulla, as well as a suckered podium (or foot part), which are a part of the water vascular ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- and the tops can be used as a leaf vegetable. The bulb of the radish is usually eaten raw, most often in salads (Herbst 2001), but tougher specimens ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- clove also can mean one section of a separable bulb, such as a clove of garlic. Cloves are one of the world's most important, popular, and ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the presence ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- The hypothalamus, also known as the "master gland," is a supervising center in the brain that links the body's two control systems ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
