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Old 03-15-2008, 03:58 PM
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most incandecent bulbs are evacuated of air and have ARGON pump into them. Your bulb developed a slow leak so when you turned it on, the tungsten filament started to burn up and ignited the argon. that's why you got the swirly smoke.
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