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PlaidBastard t1_jariopl wrote

Reply to comment by Blakut in Why does a Thorium gas mantle, when incandescent, emit more light in the visible spectrum than in infrared, when compared with a black body with the same temperature? by [deleted]

Still I bed and don't have my glasses on yet, so I'm going to have to punt those requests to others.

The blackbody radiation is indeed choppy from solids, just with so much noise that it appears mostly continuous when measuring the spectra from sufficiently geometrically complex surfaces.

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