Sentence examples for slightly incandescent from inspiring English sources
The first few stalks are only touched with gold, like eroded relics, but the next are more gold than straw, and, soon enough, the wheel is spitting out strand upon strand of pure golden straw, not the hard yellow of some gold but a yellow suffused with pink, ever so slightly incandescent in the torch-lit room.
The human eye automatically compensates for different kinds of lighting; white looks white to us in almost any kind of lighting, whether that's in the shade (in which case it's slightly bluer), or under incandescent lighting (where it's shifted towards orange), or under some weird artificial light sources (which can change several times a second!).
Improvements in LED light chips means brighter lights, too: next month Philips will release an LED bulb in the A21 shape, which is slightly longer than the classic incandescent bulb, that gives off as much as a 100-watt incandescent.
But because it was a glancing blow ie, the collision between Earth and the theoretical planet was slightly off center a huge amount of molten and incandescent silicone vapor was blasted into space, and into orbit around Earth.
This includes 2700K, which is typically seen as a slightly brighter equivalent to the warm glow of the incandescent, and 3000K, which is a slightly whiter "warm white" than the 2700K and a popular selection among residential designers for most living spaces.
But a subject in the shade is slightly bluer than the same subject in bright daylight, and incandescent lightbulbs are very orange compared to both.
The holy grail for manufacturers is to figure out how to get L.E.D.'s, whose glow can also be slightly grim, to generate light that simulates the warm color and quality of incandescent bulbs.
A century ago, incandescent lamps with tungsten filaments lasted about 1,000 hours (same as today's), were only slightly dimmer and sold in the familiar varieties of 40, 60 and 100 watts.
Yet Radford was incandescent.
See incandescent lamp; lamp.
