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Q:
Why isnt the green light is emitted from the black body radiations...
- Prudhvi Raj Borra (age 16)
Machilipatnam,Andhra,India.
A:
Well, in fact, there is green light. Black body radiation contains all of the wavelengths. The reason that it doesn't look green is that the longer wavelength light, like infrared and red, overwhelm the amount of green light. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body for a nice discussion.
LeeH
(published on 12/10/2009)
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