Just like a capacitor will discharge with a surge of reversed electric polarity, and just like a coiled inductor will discharge with a surge of reversed magnetic polarity, a filament bulb releases what? Heat? Or, thermionic induction to the circuit? There's something about a lamp, a filament bulb - not a gas discharge tube, that retains memory of its prior state and also has the ability to respond to change of state with the memory of its former state, namely: it hasn't stopped illuminating. The rest of the circuit's oscillations may be momentarily slowing down, but just when I think the circuit will die it surprises me and renews itself with another surge of abundance. From where did that renewal arise? From the lamp taking a very long time spending its kinetic frequency by reducing its color index (rated in Kelvins of all things!). Instead of losing - dissipating - that kinetic frequency, instead, it retained it for a long enough duration so that it might have it to share with the rest of the circuit when the circuit would be most receptive to assistance: when the circuit is about to die from having exhausted all of its other electric and magnetic resources.
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