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  2. Color temperature - Wikipedia

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    The color temperature scale describes only the color of light emitted by a light source, which may actually be at a different (and often much lower) temperature. [1] [2] Color temperature has applications in lighting, [3] photography, [4] videography, [5] publishing, [6] manufacturing, [7] astrophysics, [8] and other fields.

  3. Emissivity - Wikipedia

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    The planets are solar thermal collectors on a large scale. The temperature of a planet's surface is determined by the balance between the heat absorbed by the planet from sunlight, heat emitted from its core, and thermal radiation emitted back into space. Emissivity of a planet is determined by the nature of its surface and atmosphere. [11]

  4. Visible spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Newton's color circle, from Opticks of 1704, showing the colors he associated with musical notes. The spectral colors from red to violet are divided by the notes of the musical scale, starting at D. The circle completes a full octave, from D to D. Newton's circle places red, at one end of the spectrum, next to violet, at the other.

  5. Thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    In 1761, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter describing his experiments on the relationship between color and heat absorption. [7] He found that darker color clothes got hotter when exposed to sunlight than lighter color clothes. One experiment he performed consisted of placing square pieces of cloth of various colors out in the snow on a sunny day.

  6. Color - Wikipedia

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    Colored pencils. Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference.

  7. Spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Measurement of different compounds in food samples by absorption spectroscopy both in visible and infrared spectrum. Measurement of toxic compounds in blood samples; Non-destructive elemental analysis by X-ray fluorescence. Electronic structure research with various spectroscopes. Redshift to determine the speed and velocity of a distant object

  8. Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    In slightly different terms, the emissive power of an arbitrary opaque body of fixed size and shape at a definite temperature can be described by a dimensionless ratio, sometimes called the emissivity: the ratio of the emissive power of the body to the emissive power of a black body of the same size and shape at the same fixed temperature. With ...

  9. Thermochromism - Wikipedia

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    The color of the thermochromic liquid crystal can therefore continuously range from non-reflective (black) through the spectral colors to black again, depending on the temperature. Typically, the high temperature state will reflect blue-violet, while the low-temperature state will reflect red-orange.