Read the excerpt from "Thomas Edison: The Master of Improvement.”

Its glow was produced by electricity passing through a filament, or tiny piece of material. The inside of the glass bulb was a vacuum.

Based on context clues, what is the meaning of the word filament?

a place where electricity is made
a very small piece of material
the inside of a lightbulb
the vacuum inside a bulb

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