The gases are heated by hot filaments or radio waves, breaking up the methane into its constituent carbon and hydrogen atoms.

They say that a close encounter between the Sun and a more diffuse star-like object in the cluster tore off a hot filament of gases.

Water vapor dissociates into hydrogen and oxygen at the hot filament.

Usually oxygen in the air reacts chemically with the hot filament or cathode, quickly ruining it.

Energy sources include hot filament, microwave power, and arc discharges, among others.

This keeps the plug's filament glowing hot, and allows it to ignite the next charge.

Yet the hotter filament also gives the lamp its mix of colors and makes it seem whiter.

Attenuated by the friction of entry, they fell in a rain of hot filaments on the surface of the planet.

He had no electric power of any description aboard the "Nomad" to make a filament red hot.

The heat is enough to make the filament white hot, and the "white" part is light.