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Incandescence

British pronunciation/ˌɪnkɐndˈɛsəns/
American pronunciation/ˌɪnkɐndˈɛsəns/
Incandescence
[NOUN]
1

light from heat

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2

the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

synonyms : glow
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Examples
1Understandably, incandescence came along and so did LEDs.
2If you ever watched Malcolm X speak, there was this incredible incandescence that I call charisma.
3In 1761 Ebenezer Kinnersley demonstrated heating a wire to incandescence.
4A large part of what gives flames they're scattered yellow orange appearances because of the incandescence of soot particles formed in the flame out of carbon.
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