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I was with my electrician friend the other day, and we stuck two copper wires into each of the holes of a regular 120V outlet then smashed a 100W light bulb and took the resistor (small coiled looking thing) out of it and set it on a piece of wood and touched the copper wires to each end of the resistor, and it immediately lit up and was friend black.
My question is why does this not happen when you do the virtually the same thing without smashing the light bulb, that is, you touch the ends of the wires to the metal on the back of a light bulb? Does it have to do with the gas that is inside the light bulb? Because I would think that the resistor should just get hot and radiate light according to blackbody radiation and not fry up either way? Hope I explained my problem well enough
My question is why does this not happen when you do the virtually the same thing without smashing the light bulb, that is, you touch the ends of the wires to the metal on the back of a light bulb? Does it have to do with the gas that is inside the light bulb? Because I would think that the resistor should just get hot and radiate light according to blackbody radiation and not fry up either way? Hope I explained my problem well enough