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Mystery #3Tier 2electricity / light / heat

How does invisible electricity turn into bright light in a bulb?

Electricity is completely invisible. You cannot see it flowing through a wire, no colour, no shine, nothing. Yet send it into a bulb and out pours dazzling light, bright enough to fill a room. So how does something you cannot see at all turn into something so bright?

A glowing incandescent bulb with its coiled filament shining bright orange
Photo: Gauravggs · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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