how long will it work

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aliashar86

Joined Nov 23, 2006
71
ok tell me that edison faced the problem regarding the oxygen gas due to the absence of which the filament can;t glow. so tell me that there is also no gas present inside a bulb so then how it continues to glow.
 

veritas

Joined Feb 7, 2008
167
the problem that edison ran into (in my understanding - I could be completely wrong) is that in the presence of oxygen, the filament would oxidize and break/burn. It was the lack of oxygen which allowed the filament to last for an extended period of time.
 

beenthere

Joined Apr 20, 2004
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Edison's bulbs were pumped down to a hard vacuum to preserve the filament. Modern bulbs are full of argon gas.

I had assumed that the salty water was for an electrochemical cell to produce current. If not, what about the salt water is going to make the bulb glow?
 
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