thermal radiation
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A micrometer-thick silicon polymer was added to enhance the structure's cooling power by reflecting thermal radiation through the atmospheric window and into outer space.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
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
When this occurs, the warmer surface thus emits more thermal radiation, which is a type of IR radiation.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
They also neglected to include Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation in their thermal models of the asteroids.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2016
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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