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Why is an incandescent bulb hot to touch when it has been switched on for a while?
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Aarti
The incandescent bulb heats the filament (typically a coil of wire) to thousands of degrees so that it glows.
Since the bulb itself is generally at most a few inches from the filament, it gets pretty hot as well.
Since the bulb itself is generally at most a few inches from the filament, it gets pretty hot as well.
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