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

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

All hot bodies emit light, and a universal principle known as Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation states that reciprocal materials in equilibrium must absorb and emit thermal radiation at the same rate.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022

This radiation is converted into thermal radiation on the Earth’s surface, and then a portion of that energy is re-radiated back into the atmosphere.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 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