This month, let’s take a deeper look at one of the most ubiquitous forms of illumination in our world: tungsten or incandescent bulbs. Incandescent means light from heat, which also includes the light ...

More than a century after their invention, tungsten filaments—the coiled metal wires at the heart of many incandescent light bulbs—continue to be popular. This is despite the growing market for LED ...

Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns bright ...

A microscopic 3-D tungsten photonic crystal lattice (TPCL) developed by Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) has demonstrated the potential to transmute the majority of wasted infrared ...

Here's why you might want to consider swapping out all your incandescent bulbs for more efficient sources of light. (Getty Images; design by Quinn Lemmers for Yahoo Life) Buying lightbulbs, which used ...

Each of the three basic types of light sources — incandescent, fluorescent, and HID — has its own particular applications and advantages. The proper selection of a lamp type will ultimately depend on ...

You probably know that an incandescent light bulb uses a tungsten filament. What's even cooler is that it's got 20 inches of double-coiled filament -- and tungsten is a brittle mineral that, under ...

TORONTO (CP) - Canada's biggest tungsten miner says it's not worried about an Ontario government ban on incandescent light bulbs, to take effect by 2012. *No charge for 4 weeks then billed as $19 ...

The import and sale of incandescent tungsten bulbs have been banned in Qatar with effect from today as part of the country’s efforts to conserve power. In the first phase of the programme, the curb ...

"Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood" (Knopf, 337 pages, $25) by Oliver Sacks. Which three elements are called "stinkogens"? What traits do they share? The answers: sulfur, tellurium and ...

Let us now praise incandescence—and, while we’re at it, let’s damn fluorescence. Last year a woman compiling a unique kind of anthology asked me for a contribution. She was getting a number of writers ...