Why don’t light bulbs explode?

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A gas surrounding a burning hot piece of metal in a sealed glass container, why dont they explode immediately?

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Usually it’s because of the lack of oxygen inside the bulb. You can’t have combustion or fire without oxygen.

Oxygen is removed from incandescent light bulbs either by vacuum or by replacing it with an inert gas like argon.

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