thermal radiation
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When heated, the base layers accumulate thermal radiation, which can be thought of as a bath of photons.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
Water vapor prevents the solar irradiation absorbed by Earth to be reemitted towards the void of space, as thermal radiation.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2023
In the 1970s Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit thermal radiation, in the form of particles, because of quantum mechanical effects near the event horizon.
From Scientific American • Nov. 30, 2022
In 1974 Stephen Hawking theorized that black holes are not black but slowly emit thermal radiation.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2022
I knew if I got close enough to him, the intense thermal radiation he was emitting would scorch me.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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