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Everything and nothing. Everything can be non-incandescent. If it's cool enough. Incandescence is a phenomenon that is heat-related. It has to do with things giving off light when they are hot enough. Heat things up and they glow - become incandescent. Look around. See anything at room temperature that is glowing? Nope. It's all non-incandescent. But if we heat stuff up, the heat will eventually cause the stuff to melt and burn and whatever based on what it is made of and under what conditions we heat it. But whatever is left can be made to incandesce. The filament in a light bulb will incandesce if it gets hot enough. It glows white hot! Not red hot or yellow hot, but white hot. A lot of other stuff can, too. Heat anything hot enough (the burning and other decomposition aside) and it can be made to incandesce - give off light because it's so hot. We have the means to make anything incandescent if we want to. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on incandescence.

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