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blackbody

black·body

uncommon

noun

1.

a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it

  • “a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium”

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