thermal radiation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thermal radiation
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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When heated, the base layers accumulate thermal radiation, which can be thought of as a bath of photons.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 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
They trap solar radiation, which is converted into thermal radiation on the Earth’s surface of which some is reradiated back into the atmosphere.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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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