When a light bulb is connected to a circuit, current passes and it glows immediately but when the switch for a tube light is turned on, the tube light flickers and then glows after some time. Why does that happen?

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Dear Student ,
There is a substance called filament is used in the tube lights which takes some time to glow by getting red hot.That is why Tube light glows after some time.

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