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WHY doesn't the filament in a light bulb burn out?

The thin metal wire in an incandescent bulb gets so hot when an electric current flows through it that it heats up and begins to glow.

Incandescent bulbs can burn for years, but the wire doesn't burn out. The fact is that the bulb has no oxygen inside, and without oxygen, no flame can arise. The bulb is filled with a gas mixture that quenches the flame. Small and weak bulbs, below 25 watts, have a vacuum inside them. When such bulbs break, air rushes into them at such great velocity that a quiet popping sound is heard.

And without the glass housing that insulates the filament from the oxygen, the metal wire would flash only for a moment and immediately burn up like a meteor.